ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,002, issued on June 17, was assigned to KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Circulating cooling water treatment method and cooling performance" was invented by Takanori Yoshino (Tokyo), Takashi Kikkawa (Tokyo), Kazuhisa Fujita (Tokyo), Natsumi Taniyama (Tokyo) and Marina Yanagida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a technique for improving the cooling performance of a cooling tower in a circulating cooling water system having the cooling tower. The present invention provides a method for improving cooling performance of a cooling tower in a circulating cooling water system having the cooling tower...