US Patent Issued to Lummus Technology on Oct. 28 for "Heat exchanger closure assemblies and methods of using and installing the same" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,123, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Lummus Technology LLC (Bloomfield, N.J.).

"Heat exchanger closure assemblies and methods of using and installing the same" was invented by Richard Jibb (Monroe, N.Y.), David Thomas Creech (Glen Ellyn, Ill.), Randy Lee Eberly (Plainfield, Ill.), Elizabeth MacLean Meacham (Lombard, Ill.), Henk Boekhouder (Zoetermeer, Netherlands), Roberto Groppi (Hague, Netherlands), Vincenzo Marco Brignone (Leiden, Netherlands) and Trevor Jaye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger assembly including an elongated tubular heat exchanger enclosure defining an interior chamber. A tube sheet is p...