ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,397, issued on June 2, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Cooling system for cooling an exhaust-gas turbocharger" was invented by Joanna Tomankiewicz (Rzeszow, Poland), Michal Zatek (Zbyslavice, Czech Republic), Grzegorz Kondora (Rzeszow, Poland) and Slawomir Pietrowicz (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cooling system (30) for cooling an exhaust-gas turbocharger (5) as a heat source (50), the cooling system (30) including a cooling pipe (45) filled with a working fluid (60; 65), wherein the cooling pipe is arranged at a distance from a turbine housing (10) of the exhaust-ga...