ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,853, issued on July 14, was assigned to MAHLE International GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for manufacturing a distributor for refrigerant in a thermal management module" was invented by Ralf Bergmann (Leutenbach, Germany), Michael Boeltz (Michelfeld, Germany), Thomas Buehler (Wellendingen, Germany), Wolfgang Janisch (Stuttgart, Germany), Anja Kies (Weil der Stadt, Germany), Harald Muller (Stuttgart, Germany) and Michael Schmidt (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a distributor for refrigerant in components in a thermal management module is provided, distributor has distributor...