US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Sept. 16 for "Heat exchange system with tubing applied to a complex curved surface" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,450, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Heat exchange system with tubing applied to a complex curved surface" was invented by Gavin Bradley Hobbs (Maple Valley, Wash.), Patrick James Daniels (Poulsbo, Wash.), Kip Alan Carver (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.) and Wooyong Jung (Mukilteo, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchange system includes cooling tubes that carry coolant and are placed on an external surface of a storage tank, which may be spherical, cylindrical, or other shape. The storage tank may be a cryogenic rocket fuel tank. The cooling tubes are bent to particular r...