ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,188, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUJITSU GENERAL Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Heat exchanger" was invented by Shohei Nakata (Tokyo), Masatoshi Watanabe (Tokyo), Yoshinari Maema (Tokyo), Daiki Shimano (Tokyo) and Kotaro Oka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes an inlet header in which a first inlet space and a second inlet space are formed, a plurality of first inlet-side heat exchanger tubes that are connected to the first inlet space, a plurality of second inlet-side heat exchanger tubes that are connected to the second inlet space, a return header in which a plurality of first return spaces connected...