ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,179, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Valve unit for a vehicle thermal management system, a vehicle thermal management system, and a method for operating a valve unit" was invented by Mikael Jonsson (Onsala, Sweden), Tamara Dragic (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Ulf Bergman (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve unit for a vehicle thermal management system. The valve unit includes a first valve body, a second valve body, and a housing structure. The first valve body and the second valve body a...