US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Jan. 20 for "Accumulator for heat pump systems" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,501, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Accumulator for heat pump systems" was invented by Graciela Morales Martinez (Irvine, Calif.), Kian Eisazadeh-Far (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Ming Ma (Tustin, Calif.), Jing He (Novi, Mich.) and Sushant More (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to an accumulator bottle having a horizontal flow and a u-tube. The u-tube includes (e.g., horizontal) inlet and outlet sections at a common height to minimize a pressure drop for a vaporized refrigerant that passes through the accumulator. Providing the u-tube in a cuboid a...