US Patent Issued to FCA US on June 16 for "Electric vehicle heat exchanger deicing system" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,034, issued on June 16, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Electric vehicle heat exchanger deicing system" was invented by Vivek A Jairazbhoy (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Drushan Mavalankar (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Timothy C Scott (Charlottesville, Va.) and Frederica Bettoja (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal system for a vehicle includes a refrigerant loop operable between a cooling mode and a heat pump mode, a compressor configured to circulate a refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, and a heat exchanger disposed on the refrigerant loop and configured to operate as a condenser when operating i...