ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,314, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle heat exchanger" was invented by Xiaogang Zhang (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a housing. The housing defines a refrigerant inlet, a refrigerant outlet opposing the refrigerant inlet, at least one coolant inlet, and at least one coolant outlet. A gyroid structure is disposed within the housing. The gyroid structure defines a set of refrigerant channels that direct refrigerant through the gyroid structure, a first set of coolant channels that direct coolant through a first region of the gyroid structur...