ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,125, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to WATERGEN LTD. (Petach Tikva, Israel).

"Plate heat exchanger with overlapping fins and tubes heat exchanger" was invented by Sharon Dulberg (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Arye Kohavi (Newe Monosson, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger comprises a stack of sets of fins and tubes attached to or encompassed by embossed plates comprising a void. In some embodiments, the fins overlap the void having a peripheral margin of the fin attached to the peripheral margin around the void. In some embodiments, the fins comprise through fluid apertures allowing lateral fluid flow. In some embodimen...