ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,544, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Manifold for heat exchanger and heat exchanger" was invented by Jiaqi Xu (Haiyan, China), Yubao Liu (Jiaxing, China), Jing Yuan (Jiaxing, China) and Huan Jin (Jiaxing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manifold for a heat exchanger and a heat exchanger wherein the manifold includes: a pipe having an end portion; an end cover disposed at the end portion of the pipe and closing the end portion of the pipe to define an inner cavity in the pipe; and a discharge passage including: a first end opening into the inner cavity of the pipe, and a second end located a...