ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,516, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UACJ Corp. (Tokyo).

"Aluminum-alloy, fin material and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Kazushige Norikane (Aichi, Japan) and Makoto Ando (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aluminum-alloy, fin material is composed of a brazing sheet containing a core material and filler material(s) disposed on both sides of the core material. The core material is an aluminum alloy containing 0.02-0.80 mass % Si, 0.02-0.80 mass % Fe, and 0.8-2.0 mass % Mn. The core material has a crystalline-aggregate structure in which: the orientation density of one or more of brass orientation, coppe...