ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,520, issued on March 11, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Wet dry integrated circulation cooling system" was invented by Rajan Prakash (Bangalore, India) and Sudhakar Todeti (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circulating water cooling system includes at least one load; an air cooling sub-system; a wet surface cooling sub-system; at least one temperature sensor; a control; and a coolant circulation sub-system for fluidly circulating coolant from the at least one load to the air cooling sub-system to the wet surface cooling sub-system and back to the at least one load. T...