ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,822, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Heat exchangers having a three-dimensional lattice structure" was invented by Nicolas Kristopher Sabo (West Chester, Ohio) and Samuel Noah Miller (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger may include a three-dimensional lattice of integrally formed unit cells, a first furcated-pathway baffle integrally formed among the three-dimensional lattice, and/or a second furcated-pathway baffle integrally formed among the three-dimensional lattice. The three-dimensional lattice of integrally formed unit cells may include an interior pathway-cell s...