ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,940, issued on April 7, was assigned to VIESSMANN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS SE (Allendorf, Germany).
"Heat pump" was invented by Thorsten Schmidt (Marburg, Germany) and Eduard Lang (Allendorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pump includes a compressor that is connected via two refrigerant-conveying fluid lines to a heat pump component through which refrigerant flows, wherein each fluid line has a longitudinal axis, wherein an imaginary direction vector which coincides with the longitudinal axis points, on the route between the compressor and the heat pump component, at least once in a different direction to an imaginary startin...