ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,299, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SHANGHAI XINGYE MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Spiral heat exchanger and heat exchange device" was invented by Feng Gao (Shanghai), Zaixiang Liu (Shanghai), Yanfeng Chen (Shanghai), Yuanfeng Cai (Shanghai), Bing Wang (Shanghai) and Zhengyan Niu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a spiral heat exchanger and a heat exchange device. The spiral heat exchanger comprises: a core shaft with an axis extending in the left-right direction; a first liquid-passing coiled tape with a spiral liquid flow channel therein wound around the axis of the core sha...