ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,671, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AVL LIST GMBH (Graz, Austria).

"Temperature control apparatus for a gaseous medium" was invented by Michael Buchner (Graz, Austria), Sandro Masotti (Villanders, Italy), Stefan Karanovic (Graz, Austria), Thomas Rothlaender (Graz, Austria), Katarzyna Kudlaty (Goessendorf, Austria) and Andreas Klug (Semriach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature control device for a gaseous media. The temperature control device includes a first heat exchanger layer in which a medium channel for a gas to be temperature-controlled is formed, a second heat exchanger layer which extracts heat from and/...