ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,819, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Conformal heat exchanger" was invented by James Fredric Wiedenhoefer (Windsor, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes parting sheets and a fin sheet interposed between the parting sheets and corrugated along a first axis to form fins. Each of the fins is segmented to define gaps, which are arranged along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and which cooperatively accommodate curvatures of the parting sheets and the fin sheet in a third axis perpendicular to the first and second axes."
The patent was filed on June 3, 2022, under...