US Patent Issued to Audi on May 6 for "Method for maximizing a refrigerant in active system sections of a refrigeration system, refrigeration system, and motor vehicle comprising such a refrigeration system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,080, issued on May 6, was assigned to Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for maximizing a refrigerant in active system sections of a refrigeration system, refrigeration system, and motor vehicle comprising such a refrigeration system" was invented by Dirk Schroeder (Manching, Germany), Christian Rebinger (Munich), Thomas Haltmeier (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Stephen Rost (Manching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a refrigeration system for a motor vehicle. The method includes setting an operating mode of the refrigeration system having active primary line and inactive secondary line or having active se...