US Patent Issued to Rheinmetall Invent on June 23 for "Heating and cooling module, and method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,956, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rheinmetall Invent GmbH (Neuss, Germany).

"Heating and cooling module, and method" was invented by Jorg Grotendorst (Nuremberg, Germany) and Karl-Heinz Hassel (Ostringen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating and cooling module (4A-4P) for a heating and cooling system (1A-1P), including a refrigerant circuit (7) through which a refrigerant (K) can be passed, and a refrigerant guiding block (6), wherein at least part of the refrigerant circuit (7) is integrated into a material (48) from which the refrigerant guiding block (6) is made."

The patent was filed on May 16, 2022, under Appl...