ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,087, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Price Industries Inc. (Winnipeg, Canada).
"Chilled beam with ion generator" was invented by Christopher Alan Burroughs (Braselton, Ga.), Nathaniel Brett Vaughn (Atlanta) and Kyu Ho Hwang (Alpharetta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chilled beam with a bipolar ion generator located in the plenum. Conditioned air flows into the plenum through an air inlet. The plenum is pressurized by the primary air delivered from the HVAC system. The conditioned air exits the plenum through nozzles into a mixing chamber. The increased velocity of the conditioned air exiting through the nozzles induces retu...