ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,186, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Cooling device" was invented by Kenichiro Mitsuhashi (Takasago, Japan), Yasuhiro Mitarai (Yokohama, Japan) and Jong Yoon Cho (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cooling device with which it is possible to cool a fluid to be cooled, even before maintenance work, if a fault such as a blockage or a breakage occurs in a part of a channel. The cooling device (1) is provided with four heat exchangers (1A-1D) and a plurality of heat exchanger connection parts (111-120), each of the heat exchanger connection parts allowing natural gas to flow...