ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,931, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Heat exchanger" was invented by Yuya Saito (Kariya, Japan) and Ryohei Tomita (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow path tube of a heat exchanger includes an inner fin having a meander shape in which a one-side top part and an other-side top part are alternately arranged via an intermediate part. The intermediate part includes a communication part with a communication port that communicates the adjacent fine flow paths. A one-side wall part is extended from the one-side top part, which is adjacent on one side, to the communication part and separates the...