ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,530, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).
"High performance lanced sine wave fin configuration" was invented by Arindom Joardar (Jamesville, N.Y.), Lokanath Mohanta (Liverpool, N.Y.), Mustafa Koz (Brewerton, N.Y.) and Fatemeh Hejripour Rafsanjani (Jamesville, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a plurality of plate fins. At least one plate fin has a plurality of holes arranged in one or more rows and a contoured region formed adjacent one of the plurality of holes having a sinusoidal corrugation. The contoured region includes a plurality of elongate adjustable lance el...