ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,272, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Refrigerant receiver" was invented by Gerrit Wolk (Stuttgart, Germany) and Holger Ulrich (Korntal-Munchingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a refrigerant receiver, comprising a refrigerant container, a first refrigerant channel, which is connected to the container, wherein at least the container and first fluid channel are formed as an integral unit. This makes it possible to produce a less expensive refrigerant receiver that can also be operated with refrigerants requiring high pressures, because the integral des...