ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,855, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Germany) and MAHLE Automotive Technologies (China) Co. Ltd. (China).

"Variable flow heat exhanger" was invented by Feiyang Ye (Shanghai), Chunjiang Lu (Shanghai) and Dongliang Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable flow heat exchanger may include a housing and a heat exchange core. The housing may include a first housing and a second housing. The heat exchange core may be arranged between the first housing and the second housing. The heat exchange core may be formed by superposition of multi-layer heat exchange plates. A cooling fluid interface may be...