US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Oct. 14 for "Heat pump system for vehicle and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,161, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Heat pump system for vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Wan Je Cho (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yeonho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Yeon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Namho Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pump system for the vehicle includes a cooling apparatus, which includes a radiator and a water pump connected by a coolant line and circulating a coolant in the coolant line to cool at least one heating element provided on the coolant line. The heat pump syst...