ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,075, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hanon Systems (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Device for regulating a through-flow and expanding of a fluid in a fluid circuit" was invented by Arjun Krishna Moorthy (Cologne, Germany), Carsten Ohrem (Bergheim, Germany), Daniel Zens (Kreuzau, Germany), Nils Michael Schlattmann (Oln, Germany) and Andreas Capelle (Pulheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for regulating a through-flow and expanding a fluid in a fluid circuit, in particular a refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit of an air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle. The device has a housing and a valve element arranged in the i...