ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,241, issued on May 6, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Throttling heat exchange assembly" was invented by Meiyan Hu (Zhejiang, China), Bin Song (Zhejiang, China), Linzhong Wu (Zhejiang, China), Yunpeng Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Zhengyi Yin (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A throttling heat exchange assembly includes a first heat exchange part, a bridge, a second heat exchange part, a throttling element, and a sensing element. The bridge is at least partially located between the first heat exchange part and the second heat exchange part. The bridge includes two holes an...