ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,664, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Linde AG (Munich).

"Method for producing a plate heat exchanger and plate heat exchanger with thermocouples or measuring resistors" was invented by Rainer Flueggen (Bichl, Germany), Pascal Freko (Eurasburg, Germany), Konrad Braun (Lenggries, Germany), Rainer Hoffmann (Unterhaching, Germany), Stefan Gewald (Munich) and Janine Blank (Kienberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a method for producing a plate heat exchanger (1) with a multiplicity of parting sheets (20) and a multiplicity of fins (11, 12), a fin being respectively arranged between two neighboring...