ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,240, issued on May 6, was assigned to HANGZHOU SANHUA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Heat exchanger and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Xinjian Wang (Hangzhou, China), Hai Huang (Singapore) and Weidong Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a main body portion and a cover. The main body portion includes a heat exchange core, a collecting pipe portion and a first mounting shell. The collecting pipe portion includes a first collecting pipe portion and a second collecting pipe portion. Both the first collecting pipe portion and the second collecting pipe portion are pr...