US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on April 15 for "Air conditioner including one or more evaporative cooling units" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,437, issued on April 15, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen Am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Air conditioner including one or more evaporative cooling units" was invented by Michael J. Sweeney (Seattle), Nicholas Labonte (Edmonton, Canada) and Andrew Kim Liang Chan (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioning system includes one or more evaporative cooling units. For example, an evaporative cooling unit of the air conditioning system includes a first V-shaped portion of a winding of microporous hollow fibers that are configured to receive a liquid, and a second V-shaped portion of the winding of m...