ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,146, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Munters Europe Aktiebolag (Kista, Sweden).

"Method for cleaning an evaporative humidifier and cooler apparatus and a system comprising an evaporative humidifier and cooler apparatus" was invented by Daniel Unge (Skarpnack, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method, performed by a control device (100), for cleaning an evaporative humidifier and cooler apparatus (1) for humidification and cooling of air, the apparatus (1) comprises: a cooling and humidification media (2), which is configured to receive and evaporate a fluid (4); a fluid distribution element (6), whic...