ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,249, issued on July 21, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"System and method for extreme cold starting of a heating system" was invented by Yilin Tian (Farmington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for preventing temperature undershoot in a refrigerant loop during extreme temperatures includes determining a sensed condition at a refrigerant loop and when the sensed condition is below a first threshold starting a flow of coolant in a coolant loop comprising a first portion of a first heat exchanger. The method further includes raising the t...