ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,178, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Airbus Operations S.L.U. (Getafe, Spain).
"Evolutive precooler" was invented by Juan Tomas Prieto Padilla (Getafe, Spain) and Diego Barron Vega (Getafe, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft heat exchanger arranged longitudinally and including a casing with an inner chamber configured so that coolant flows longitudinally from an inlet to an outlet, a plurality of laterally spaced longitudinally extending inner chamber plates, and a plurality of channels defined between contiguous plates. Each plate includes a leading edge oriented towards the inlet and configured to divert coolant to...