ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,557, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).
"Feedback cooling system for an imaging system" was invented by Ziad Burbar (Knoxville, Tenn.) and John Keller (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system for cooling a component of an imaging system located in a scan room. The system includes inlet, outlet and return channels. A portion of warm outlet air from a component outlet flows in the return channel to provide warm recirculated air to a mixing zone in the inlet channel. A fan located in the inlet channel draws scan room air into the inlet channel to mix with the wa...