ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,513, issued on July 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger" was invented by Nobuhide Hara (Tokyo), Shimpei Okayasu (Tokyo), Satoshi Hiraoka (Yokohama, Japan), Kenji Kirihara (Yokohama, Japan), Masahiko Nagai (Yokohama, Japan), Kensuke Nishiura (Yokohama, Japan) and Tatsuo Ishiguro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger including: a heat exchanger main body forming a flow path through which a fluid circulates; heat transfer tubes arranged side by side so as to extend in an extending direction of the flow path; and a baffle plate group having a plurality of baffle plates provided wit...