ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,852, issued on July 15, was assigned to SPH Sustainable Process Heat GmbH (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany).
"Lubricant reservoir, compressor system and heat pump" was invented by Tim Hamacher (Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany) and Andreas Muck (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubricant reservoir for a compressor, which can be part of a system of a heat pump, in particular, a high-temperature heat pump, having a holding chamber for lubricants with at least one holding-chamber cladding element at least partially outwardly limiting the holding chamber, and a temperature controller is integrated into the holding-ch...