ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,515, issued on June 16, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) and MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Modular assembly for a refrigerant circuit of a motor vehicle, and refrigerant circuit" was invented by Patrick Then (Ingolstadt, Germany), Thomas Haltmeier (Elsendorf, Germany), Bernhard Danner (Ingolstadt, Germany), Christian Rebinger (Munich), Dominik Behnert (Leonberg, Germany), Timo Feldkeller (Asperg, Germany) and Tobias Isermeyer (Lowenstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module assembly for a refrigerant circuit of a motor vehicle. The module assembly includes an inner heat exchanger and a heat ...