US Patent Issued to HANON SYSTEMS on Nov. 3 for "Combination heat exchanger" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,059, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Combination heat exchanger" was invented by Evangelos Papoulis (Novi, Mich.), Chao Zhang (Novi, Mich.), Nicos Agathocleous (Novi, Mich.), William Abate (Novi, Mich.), Kenneth Belford (Novi, Mich.) and Robert Sorensen (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger comprising a plurality of first plates and a plurality of second plates disposed between two end plates. The first plates and the second plates are alternatingly arranged in a stacked relationship. When in the stacked relationship, the first and second plates form at least a first flow...