US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITAT DE LLEIDA, SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE on June 17 for "Deformable fin heat exchanger" (Spanish, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,003, issued on June 17, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT DE LLEIDA (Lleida, Spain) and SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE S.E.C. (Sherbrooke, Canada).

"Deformable fin heat exchanger" was invented by Luc Frechette (Sherbrooke, Canada), Jerome Barrau (Lleida, Spain) and Montserrat Vilarrubi Porta (Lleida, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger comprises a base, and a plurality of deformable fins connected to a surface of the base. Some deformable fins have a free end configured to move away from the surface of the base as a function of a local temperature increase of the base. The deformable fins are distributed on the surface of the b...