ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,164, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Evaporator" was invented by Gottfried Duerr (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Guenther Feuerecker (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evaporator for a refrigerant circuit, in particular of a motor vehicle, with a tube/fin block with a multiplicity of tubes and fins, with a first collecting tank on one side of the tube/fin block and with a second collecting tank on the other side of the tube/fin block. The first collecting tank has an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber, wherein the inlet chamber is provided with a refrigerant inlet connec...