ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,348, issued on May 27, was assigned to SANHUA (HANGZHOU) MICRO CHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGER Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Flat tube, multi-channel heat exchanger, and air conditioning and refrigeration system" was invented by Guangfei Wei (Zhejiang, China), Jianlong Jiang (Zhejiang, China), Qiang Gao (Zhejiang, China) and Haobo Jiang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flat tube, a multi-channel heat exchanger, and an air conditioning and refrigeration system. The flat tube has n groups of flow channels extending in a length direction of the flat tube, and the n groups of flow channels are distributed to be spaced apart in a w...