US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on July 1 for "Air-cooled resistor arrangement" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,590, issued on July 1, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Air-cooled resistor arrangement" was invented by Fredrik Rahm (Horby, Sweden), Peter Tennevall (Malmo, Sweden), Magnus Ising (Lund, Sweden), Tove Audhav (Landvetter, Sweden) and Arne Andersson (Molnlycke, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air cooled resistor arrangement comprising a first elongated tube member forming a first air flow channel and a second elongated tube member forming a second air flow channel, wherein the first elongated tube member is at least partly housed inside the second elongated tube member. The air-cooled resistor arrangeme...