US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Sept. 15 for "Thermal insulating member for a vehicle component" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,786, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Thermal insulating member for a vehicle component" was invented by Kumaravel Manickam (Ramamurthy Nagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal insulating member includes a multilayer complex having first layer which is made of a hydrophobic aerogel; a second layer which is made of a fiber wool; and a metallic foil, called outer layer. The thickness of the first layer decreases along a variability direction of the multilayer complex. The thermal insulating member can be arranged around a vehicle component which extends in a longitudinal directi...