US Patent Issued to Rheem Manufacturing on Feb. 3 for "Heat exchanger tubes and tube assembly configurations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,755, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).

"Heat exchanger tubes and tube assembly configurations" was invented by Satya Gullapalli (Oxnard, Calif.), Bruce Hotton (Oxnard, Calif.), Juan Garcia (Oxnard, Calif.), Amin Akbarimonfared (Oxnard, Calif.), Juan Carlos Montanez (Oxnard, Calif.) and Kevin Williams (Oxnard, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include various water heaters. In one example, a water heater includes a burner, an exhaust vent, a corrugated baffle having a first slit having a first length and a second slit having a second length that is less than the first length, and a hea...