US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Oct. 20 for "Heat pump systems having deicing features" (Iowa, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,910, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Heat pump systems having deicing features" was invented by Thomas L. Kennedy (Bettendorf, Iowa), Aaron J. Whalen (Cuba City, Wis.) and Kyle A. Holl (Dubuque, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system configured to deice at least one air-side heat exchanger by selectively operating the air-side heat exchanger as a heat rejecting heat exchanger. The thermal management system is further configured to select a heat source from a plurality of heat sources to elevate a temperature of a thermal fluid supplied to the heat rejecting heat exchanger. Addi...