US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 23 for "HVAC apparatus for a vehicle" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,955, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"HVAC apparatus for a vehicle" was invented by Manfred Koberstein (Troy, Mich.), John Azar (LaSalle, Canada) and Rachael Eileen Shey (Ferndale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) apparatus for a vehicle includes a housing defining an inlet, an outlet, an airflow path between the inlet and the outlet, a heat exchanger disposed along the airflow path for selectively heating and cooling air in the airflow path, a passage between the inlet and the outlet and dividing the airflow path into a first p...