ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,061, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Spirax-Sarco Ltd. (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

"Method for cooling a heating apparatus" was invented by Joe Rosagro (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Jeremy Miller (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Rafal Chachulski (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cooling a heating apparatus includes a heating chamber. The method includes accumulating condensate in the heating chamber, monitoring a pressure in the heating chamber, and controlling the pressure in the heating chamber by venting the heating chamber to thereby controllably permit vaporisation of the condensate that coo...