ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,351, issued on April 14, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regegnsburg, Germany).
"Valve/pump unit" was invented by Marius Muller (Darmstadt, Germany), Sebastian Brettner (Burglengenfeld, Germany), Manuel Dillinger (Kelheim, Germany), Markus Feulner (Ensdorf, Germany), Gerhard Eser (Hemau, Germany), Karl Martin Fritsch (Frankfurt, Germany), Christof Heeger (Hessen, Germany) and Konstantin Bart (Bad Nauheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve/pump unit is proposed, having an electric motor for driving at least one pump stage, at least one first pump stage drivable by the electric motor for conveying a heat transp...