ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,928, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger and air conditioner for vehicle" was invented by Koji Nakado (Tokyo), Nobuya Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Hideaki Tatenoi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This heat exchanger is equipped with: a first heat exchange unit having a first inlet/outlet unit which has one inlet/outlet port and through which a coolant flows, and also having a plurality of first heat transfer pipes, each of which has one end thereof connected to the first inlet/outlet unit; a header pipe which is connected to the other ends of the plurality of first...