ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,418, issued on July 22, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Germany) and MAHLE Japan Ltd (Japan).
"Heat exchanger" was invented by Masahiro Ariyama (Tokyo), Ryoichi Kurihara (Tokyo), Takuma Shibata (Tokyo), Satoshi Suzuki (Tokyo), Kenji Wada (Tokyo) and Kenji Yamashita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger is disclosed. The heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger core including a stacked plurality of plates, a top plate, and a bottom plate. The plurality of plates includes two end portion plates, and a plurality of intermediate plates stacked between the end portion plates. Each of the plurality of intermediat...