US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on May 26 for "Vacuum spray boiler" (Florida, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,244, issued on May 26, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Vacuum spray boiler" was invented by Maxim Oleg Khatsenko (San Diego), Michael Anton Feigenblatt (Seattle), Jason Alan Cooper (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) and Patrick Wade (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger system, in particular a vacuum spray boiler, cools a hot fluid by spraying a coolant onto chambers carrying the hot fluid. This process may be performed in i) a vacuum, as in space, ii) atmospheric pressure, as on a launch pad of a space vehicle, or iii) any pressure therebetween. The heat exchanger system may incorporate ...