US Patent Issued to MAHLE International on July 14 for "Heat exchanger for a motor vehicle with an aluminum alloy and method of manufacture" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,767, issued on July 14, was assigned to MAHLE International GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Heat exchanger for a motor vehicle with an aluminum alloy and method of manufacture" was invented by Matthias Gordeler (Stuttgart, Germany), Alexander Wald (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Thomas Feldhege (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle is provided. The heat exchanger contains at least one element that contains aluminum. This element that contains aluminum has a core and at least one plating layer. The core is composed of a first aluminum alloy that contains approx. 0.5% to approx. 4...