ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,161, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to "RETECH" SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA (Mielec, Poland).

"Steam condenser with heat exchanger and a cooking oven with such steam condenser" was invented by Andrzej Ziarko (Mielec, Poland), Boguslaw Ziarko (Murnau, Germany) and Krzysztof Ziarko (Mielec, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steam condenser for a cooking oven having a housing, side walls and at least partly open front side and back side to facilitate flow of cooling air through the steam condenser, and a heat exchanger located in said housing that includes connected finned tubes through which water vapor with other gase...