I 3d printed this well before 2019... Made in plastic as a prototype heat exchanger designed in openscad.
Is there anything I can do, or must I now shelve my project because I didn't see this patent be filed?
Is there anything I can do, or must I now shelve my project because I didn't see this patent be filed?
If so, you're good to continue your work. You could even try to help the patent examiner find your work by publishing it and using keywords related to the patent.
That's when the Mandelbrot book(s) hit the mainstream in mathematics and engineering following his coining of the word in 1975.
As an undergraduate at the time I can attest such ideas were extensively discussed, there are many people with notebooks from the time sketching out notions of practical and impractical applications and further study in multiple dimensions.
Relationships between fractal branching, leafs and fluid exchange (be the fluid heat or CO2 or reactants) have been sketched out diagrammatically and analytically ad nauseam in the time since.