ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,699, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Bypass arrangement for a heat exchanger of a refrigerant circuit of a motor vehicle" was invented by Saliou Deme (Bonn, Germany) and Marc Cierco Portillo (Lledia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bypass arrangement having a first flow duct with a refrigerant flow path miming through the heat exchanger, a second flow duct, which leads as a bypass refrigerant flow path into the first flow duct downstream of the heat exchanger in the refrigerant flow direction, and one valve with an inlet for refrigerant, a first refrigerant outlet connected to the firs...