ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,558, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nortek Air Solutions Canada Inc. (Saskatoon, Canada).

"Using liquid to air membrane energy exchanger for liquid cooling" was invented by Davood Ghadiri Moghaddam (Richmond Hill, Canada), Philip Paul LePoudre (Saskatoon, Canada) and Manfred Gerber (Saskatoon, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling conditions in an enclosed space, such as a data center, or for providing cooling to a device, can include using a Liquid-to-Air Membrane Energy Exchanger (LAMEE) as an evaporative cooler. The LAMEE or exchanger can cool water to the outdoor air wet bulb temperature in...