US Patent Issued to PLANA on June 23 for "Heat exchanger and airplane comprising same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,268, issued on June 23, was assigned to PLANA Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Heat exchanger and airplane comprising same" was invented by Braden J. Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sang Hyun Jung (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger configured to perform heat exchange for a heat source of a fuselage and provide thrust or thrust vectoring to the fuselage, and an aircraft including the same are disclosed. The aircraft includes a fuselage, at least one inlet provided at a side of the fuselage, at least one outlet provided at a bottom of the fuselage, and a fan unit having at least one fan disposed ...