ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,206, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Heat exchanger" was invented by Nikolaj Bittner (Esslingen a.N, Germany), Uwe Forster (Erdmannhausen, Germany) and Martin Sievers (Kernen im Remstal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger that can be flowed through in the x-direction based on the heat exchanger, having at least one first row and a second row of flat tubes, which can be flowed through by a cooling fluid, having a in the z-direction upper collecting tank, and a lower collecting tank, wherein the flat tubes in each row in the y-direction based on the heat exchanger ...