US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on March 25 for "Rotary heat exchanger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,191, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Rotary heat exchanger" was invented by Nobuhiro Maruoka (Sendai, Japan), Toshimitsu Ono (Sendai, Japan), Satoshi Endo (Sendai, Japan), Tadanobu Aizawa (Sendai, Japan) and Kaoru Konno (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary heat exchanger includes: a tubular-shaped heat transfer tubular body (3) which is rotatable with a central axis (C) as a rotation center, which allows a first medium (11) to flow therein, and outside of which a second medium (12) having a temperature different from temperature of the first medium (11) flows; a central membe...