ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,676, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FFI IONIX IP INC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Metal hydride heat exchanger and method of use" was invented by Bamdad Bahar (Georgetown, Del.), Peter Mark Golben (Florida, N.Y.) and William Parmelee (Dover, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger incorporates a metal hydride heat exchanger and mitigates the fluid mixing process, and thus greatly improves the heat transfer efficiency and heat recovery processes. The metal hydride heat exchanger has a container for the metal hydride that has a large aspect ratio. A plurality of high aspect container for the metal hydride may be coupled with a...