US Patent Issued to Parker-Hannifin on Oct. 14 for "Heat exchanger with progressive divided flow circuit, structural load bearing design" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,597, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Parker-Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland).

"Heat exchanger with progressive divided flow circuit, structural load bearing design" was invented by Erlendur Steinthorsson (Pepper Pike, Ohio), Andrew M. Odar (Chardon, Ohio), Raman Ras (Concord Township, Ohio) and Peter Ditzel (Concord, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger including a fluid circuit in which an incoming fluid stream is progressively divided into multiple smaller streams, each of which delivers the heat exchange fluid into one or more heat exchange sections of the device; and/or in which multiple fluid streams of the fluid ci...