ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,001, issued on July 8, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Heat pump assembly with a chiller for battery-powered vehicles and methods of operating the heat pump assembly" was invented by Matthias Hofler (Aachen, Germany), Navid Durrani (Kerpen, Germany) and Toni Spies (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pump assembly with a chiller for battery-powered vehicles, having a refrigerant circuit with a compressor, a heating condenser, a refrigerant valve with an expansion function, an ambient heat exchanger, at least one evaporator with an associated refrigerant valve with an expansion function, as wel...