ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,286, issued on May 27, was assigned to VIESSMANN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS SE (Allendorf, Germany).
"Heat pump" was invented by Eduard Lang (Allendorf, Germany), Lars Kautzner (Marburg, Germany) and Lukas Boehle (Burgwald, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pump includes a housing, a housing opening that is provided in the housing and is in the form of a water drain, at least one heat-pump component that is elastically mounted in the housing, and a transport securing device for fixing the elastically mounted heat-pump component while the housing is being transported. The transport securing device is configured to close the housing...