ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,511, issued on April 14, was assigned to SCHMOLE GMBH (Frondenberg, Germany).

"Heat conduction sheet and method of manufacturing such a sheet" was invented by Dieter Bitter (Finnentrop, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat-conducting plate for fixing a pipe section to a holding surface of a heat exchanger, wherein the heat-conducting plate has perforations, in particular for acoustic reasons, wherein the perforations are not distributed uniformly over the entire surface of the heat-conducting plate."

The patent was filed on Jan. 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/102,270.

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