ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,045, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Systems for thermal management of a vehicle" was invented by Steven Vanhee (Hooglede, Belgium), Maarten Debrouwere (Zedelgem, Belgium), Carl Trudel (Boucherville, Canada), Jaywant S. Pawar (Pune, India) and Alexandre Pare (Saint-Amable, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for a cooling system for an electric vehicle. In one example, a system includes a shaft assembly comprising a shaft, a shaft end cap, and an insert, wherein the insert is arranged in a cavity shaped by the shaft and the shaft end cap."

The patent was fi...