ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,831, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SkyCool Systems Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cooling panel system" was invented by David Urnes Johnson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aaswath Raman (Los Angeles) and Eli A. Goldstein (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system includes one or more cooling panels for affecting a cooling load in an environment. The cooling system also includes a heat exchanger coupled to the one or more cooling panels. Each cooling panel includes a film, a panel body, an inlet port, an outlet port, and a fluid path. The film's radiative properties allow it to achieve a temperature less than an en...