ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,317, issued on March 18, was assigned to VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France).
"Heat exchanger with an added-on collector" was invented by Sebastien Devedeux (Le Mesnil Saint Denis, France), Mickael Gameiro (Le Mesnil Saint Denis, France) and Mateusz Lipowski (Skawina, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a heat exchanger (1) comprising at least one heat exchange bundle (2), a box (4, 6) and a collector (8), the box (4, 6) being arranged at one end (24, 26) of the heat exchange bundle (2), the heat exchange bundle (2) comprising at least one peripheral wall (10) which delimits a...