ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,166, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Temperature control system for a motor vehicle controlling the temperature of drivetrain components of a motor vehicle" was invented by Thomas Konieczny (Witten, Germany), Fabian Kueppers (Hurth, Germany), Jan Mehring (Cologne, Germany), Hans Guenter Quix (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Tobias Emig (Gelsenkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a temperature control system of a vehicle In one example, a system includes an evaporator directly upstream of a heat exchanger and a plurality of valves configured...