ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,077, issued on June 24, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Heat exchanger tube block, exhaust heat recovery boiler, and method of constructing exhaust heat recovery boiler" was invented by Takuro Nozoe (Kobe, Japan), Yukihiro Takenaka (Kobe, Japan), Tatsuo Ino (Kobe, Japan), Atsushi Yukioka (Kobe, Japan), Shuji Yamamoto (Kobe, Japan), Toshinori Tanaka (Kobe, Japan), Ryo Nakamura (Kobe, Japan), Hao Zhang (Wuhu, China) and Wei Fang (Wuhu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger tube block is stacked on another heat exchanger tube block in an upper-lower direction and connected to the another heat exchan...