ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,390, issued on July 22, was assigned to THE COCA-COLA COMPANY (Atlanta).

"Double skin heat exchanger apparatus and system" was invented by Roberto Horn Pereira (Suwanne, Ga.), Luciana Wasnievski Da Silva De Luca Ramos (Marietta, Ga.) and Norman Badaoui (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger module includes a skin condenser and a skin evaporator. The skin condenser includes an inner condenser plate, an outer condenser plate coupled to the inner condenser plate and a condenser tube channel formed on one of the inner condenser plate and/or the outer condenser plate. The evaporator includes an inner evaporator plate, an...