ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,400, issued on May 19, was assigned to Bosal Flanders NV (Lummen, Belgium).

"Gas treatment component" was invented by Jean-Paul Hubert Janssens (Leopoldsburg, Belgium), Michel Dubuisson (JM Sittard, Netherlands) and Martijn Luyck (Hasselt, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas treatment component includes a cross-flow heat exchanger and a counter-flow heat exchanger arranged in series with the cross-flow heat exchanger. The cross-flow heat exchanger and the counter-flow heat exchanger each include a core having a stack of heat exchanger plates, and the heat exchanger plates of the cross-flow heat exchanger form first channels f...