ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,948, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicular thermal management system" was invented by Ki Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular thermal management system includes an HVAC subsystem including a compressor, a heating-side expansion, an exterior heat exchanger, a cooling-side expansion valve, an evaporator, a distribution line allowing at least a portion of a refrigerant discharged from the exterior heat exchanger to be directed from the upstream side of the cooling-side expansion valve to the compressor, and a battery dis...