US Patent Issued to AUDI on May 13 for "Cooling system of a vehicle, comprising a coolant circuit which can be operated as a cooling circuit for an AC operation and as a heat pump circuit for a heating operation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,649, issued on May 13, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Cooling system of a vehicle, comprising a coolant circuit which can be operated as a cooling circuit for an AC operation and as a heat pump circuit for a heating operation" was invented by Dirk Schroeder (Manching, Germany), Christian Rebinger (Munich) and Thomas Anzenberger (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system of a vehicle, including a coolant circuit, which can be operated as a cooling circuit for an AC operation and as a heat pump circuit for a heating operation, an evaporator, a coolant compressor, a heat exchanger in the form o...