US Patent Issued to MAHLE International on June 23 for "Heat exchanger module and motor vehicle having the same" (Indian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,179, issued on June 23, was assigned to MAHLE International GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Heat exchanger module and motor vehicle having the same" was invented by Gustavo Fuga Santos (Gerlingen, Germany), Nikhil Nimbalkar (Pune, India), Kiran Pagare (Pune, India), Patil Pramod (Pune, India), Hicham Rouhana (Korntal-Munchingen, Germany) and Amit Gulhane (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a heat exchanger module having a collector and a heat exchanger. It is substantial for the invention that on a connecting flange of the collector at least one groove equipped for conducting refrigerant is...