ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,923, issued on May 13, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies USA LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Multi-port thermal module" was invented by Ravinder Singh Gill (Chatham, Canada), Mohammad Abu Jubbeh (Chatham, Canada), Alexander Dragojlov (Chatham, Canada), Jorg Eissler (Wiesbaden, Germany), Mitchell Koupal (Pontiac, Mich.), Peter Welteroth (Glashutten, Germany) and Armin Seeger (Glashutten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-port thermal module which includes a central housing, a plurality of flow cavities integrally formed as part of the central housing, at least one inner housing connected to a first side of the central hous...