ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,186, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOWER GUARD LLC (Rockford, Mich.).

"Cooling water management systems having continuous biofilm monitoring and associated methods for using the same" was invented by Bradley J. Brussow (Belmont, Mich.) and Ed Kroll (Whitehall, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water cooling/recirculating management system, including: a controller; a fluid displacement pump; a centrifugal separator; a germicide generator; a primary side stream magnetic field generator; an optional continuous, real time corrosion monitoring and reporting system; and a continuous, real time biofilm monitoring and reporting sys...