ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,234, issued on June 17, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Goteborg, Sweden).
"Air cooled resistor" was invented by Tove Audhav (Landvetter, Sweden), Fredrik Rahm (Horby, Sweden), Magnus Ising (Lund, 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 which is housed inside a second elongated tube member. The first and second elongated tube members are spaced apart from each other by an air gap for allowing a flow of air to flow through the first elongated tube member and the air gap."
The patent was filed on Oct. 20, 2022, under App...