ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,284, issued on March 24, was assigned to Valeo Systemes Thermiques (LaVerriere, France).

"Ventilation device for a ventilation, heating and/or air conditioning system of a motor vehicle" was invented by Sebastien Goude (La Verriere, France), Thibaud Matharan (La Verriere, France), Charlie Bricault (La Verriere, France) and Renan Leon (La Verriere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The main subject matter of the invention is a ventilation device including at least one duct intended to channel an air flow in an air flow direction inside the duct, the ventilation device including at least one acoustic attenuation member at least pa...