ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,551, issued on April 14, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Air conditioning system" was invented by Florian Bock (Schwaig, Germany) and Michael Grabowski (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioning system for an interior of a vehicle, which has at least one cooling unit as at least one component. The at least one cooling unit has thermally conductive composite yarn and carrier material, which has phase change material. The carrier material is woven into the composite yarn. The phase change material is designed to absorb heat from the interior above its melting point."
The patent was filed o...