ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,659, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Advanced 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. A first cooling block is defined within the housing. The first cooling block includes a coolant inlet, a refrigerant inlet, and a first gyroid structure that defines a first set of coolant channels and a first set of refrigerant channels. A second cooling block is defined within the housing. The second cooling block includes a coolant outlet, a refrigerant outlet, and a second gyroid structure that defin...