ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,769, issued on March 31, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Heat exchanger with aluminum alloy clad tube and method of manufacture" was invented by Mary Teresa Lombardo (Windsor, Conn.), Ruoshuang Huang (Farmington, Conn.), Jefferi J. Covington (Aldwinsville, N.Y.), Matthew Patterson (East Syracuse, N.Y.), Anais Espinal (Burlington, Mass.), Mark R. Jaworowski (Sarasota, Fla.), Aaron T. Nardi (East Granby, Conn.), Catherine Thibaud (Cork, Ireland), Tobias H. Sienel (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) and Luis Felipe Avila (Manlius, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger is disclosed. The heat exchanger include...