US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Aug. 11 for "Smart additively manufactured heat exchanger with adaptive profile and turbulator" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,332, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Smart additively manufactured heat exchanger with adaptive profile and turbulator" was invented by Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger element includes a body and at least one deformable surface feature disposed at an outer body surface of the body. At least one of the body and of the at least one surface feature is configured to selectively respond to a temperature change such that a physical characteristic of the heat exchanger element changes in response to the temperature change. The physical character...