US Patent Issued to Coil Master on May 26 for "Apparatus and method to prevent splitting or rupture in fluid coils" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,242, issued on May 26, was assigned to Coil Master Corp. (Moscow, Tenn.).

"Apparatus and method to prevent splitting or rupture in fluid coils" was invented by Long Phan (Memphis, Tenn.) and Christian Sorensen (Rossville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid coil includes a tube bundle having a series of straight tubing runs and a series of return bends extending between and fluidically connecting ones of the straight tubing runs, an expansion header fluidically connected to at least some of the return bends and a polymeric material disposed in the expansion header. The polymeric material has an initial shape and is compressib...