US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on April 29 for "Method for initiating a defrosting process of a heat exhanger of a heat pump of a motor vehicle and a corresponding motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,995, issued on April 29, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for initiating a defrosting process of a heat exhanger of a heat pump of a motor vehicle and a corresponding motor vehicle" was invented by Jochen Westhauser (Braunschweig, Germany), Jan-Christoph Albrecht (Wolfsburg, Germany) and Sven Twenhovel (Sassenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for initiating a defrosting process of a heat exchanger of a heat pump of a motor vehicle, wherein the heat exchanger and a coolant heat exchanger of a cooling circuit of the motor vehicle are arranged in a common air path, involves determining a coo...