ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,692, issued on March 4, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany).

"Method for operating a heat exchanger, arrangement with a heat exchanger, and system with a corresponding arrangement" was invented by Stefan Lochner (Grafing, Germany), Ralph Spori (Egling, Germany), Axel Lehmacher (Egling-Moosham, Germany), Pascal Freko (Eurasburg, Germany), Paul Heinz (Munich) and Felix RoBler (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a heat exchanger, in which a first operating mode is carried out in first time periods, and a second operating mode is carried out in second time periods that alternate with the first time per...