US Patent Issued to Valeo Systemes Thermiques on Dec. 16 for "Defrost airflow assembly for a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) case" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,870, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Valeo Systemes Thermiques (LaVerriere, France).

"Defrost airflow assembly for a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) case" was invented by Steven Marshall (Troy, Mich.), Cody Barnebee (Troy, Mich.), Timothy Mayer (Troy, Mich.), Richard Sikorski (Troy, Mich.) and Jayakumar Selvan (Tami Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defrost airflow assembly for a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) case, having a defrost channel starting in a mixing chamber and terminating in a defrost outlet with a defrost door, a demist channel starting in the mixing chamber and termina...