ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,272, issued on May 20, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Compact heat exchanger unit for electric vehicle particularly and air conditioning module" was invented by Peter Heyl (Cologne, Germany), Radim Cech (Studenka, Czech Republic) and Radek Slavik (Hluk, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact heat exchanger unit within an air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle, and a condenser region for the condensation of refrigerant is formed as a heat exchanging surface, and a high-pressure-refrigerant collector region as a refrigerant collector is formed in the integrated form as a plate packet of a heat...