US Patent Issued to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE on July 7 for "Heat transfer plate" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,629, issued on July 7, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Heat transfer plate" was invented by Johan Nilsson (Ronneby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat transfer plate includes an outer edge portion having corrugations between and in first/second planes, and a porthole defined by an annular port edge, an annular ring gasket groove on the front side of the plate around the porthole, and an annular port portion between the ring gasket groove and the porthole and including the port edge. The port portion comprises inner port corrugations along an inner section of the port edge. A bottom of the ring gasket...