ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,080, issued on May 13, 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 is provided and includes parting sheets flat along a first axis and curved along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, a fin sheet interposed between the parting sheets and corrugated along the first axis to form fins that are curved along the second axis and diffusion bonds formed along an entire length of a fin to diffusion bond the entire length of the fin to the parting sheets."
The patent was filed on Feb. 6, 2023, und...