ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,211, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Germany).
"Collecting tank for a heat exchanger" was invented by Gottfried Duerr (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Uwe Foerster (Erdmannhausen, Germany), Stephanie Hahnenkamm (Lorch, Germany), Hagen Schirnig (Stuttgart, Germany) and Martin Sievers (Kernen im Remstel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collecting tank for a heat exchanger may include at least one manifold for receiving a plurality of heat exchanger tubes of the heat exchanger. The at least one manifold may have a hollow space through which a fluid is flowable. The at least one manifold may include a bottom ...