ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,527, issued on April 14, was assigned to MAHLE International GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Heat exchange system" was invented by Scott Kent (Albion, N.Y.), Robert Louis Runk (Lockport, N.Y.), Lindsey Lee Leitzel (Lockport, N.Y.) and Szymon Walczak (Ostrow-Wielkopolski, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchange system for controlling heat within an indoor space is provided. The system includes a heat exchanger located within the indoor space and a dual flow heat exchanger that is located in a space that is not temperature regulated by the system. The outdoor dual flow heat exchanger has flow through two different pluralitie...