US Patent Issued to Rheem Manufacturing on July 7 for "Systems and methods for heat exchange" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,630, issued on July 7, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for heat exchange" was invented by Baojie Mu (Aubrey, Texas) and Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interlaced heat exchanger is described. The interlaced heat exchanger includes a plurality of microchannel tubes configured to allow flow of a first fluid therethrough and a plurality of flat tubes configured to allow flow of a second fluid therethrough to exchange heat with the first fluid. The plurality of microchannel tubes and the plurality of flat tubes are stacked in an alternating arrangement along ...