ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,301, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Heat exchanger having plate members" was invented by Shogo Kawaguchi (Kariya, Japan) and Isao Tamada (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of plate members are stacked together to form a plurality of refrigerant passages and a plurality of fluid passages. At least one plate member among the plate members includes: a flow inlet which is placed at one end portion of a corresponding refrigerant passage formed at the at least one plate member and is configured to input the refrigerant into the corresponding refrigerant passage; a flow outlet which i...