US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 5 for "Heat exchanger for friction stir welding apparatus and associated system and method" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,490, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Heat exchanger for friction stir welding apparatus and associated system and method" was invented by Aaron Parko (Athens, Ala.), Todd Renz (Toney, Ala.) and Timothy Walters (Madidon, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger for a self-reacting friction stir welding apparatus includes a collar. The collar includes a collar flow inlet, a collar flow outlet, and an internal conduit fluidically coupling the collar flow inlet and the collar flow outlet. The heat exchanger also includes a rotary union having a first rotary-union flow outlet fluidically coup...