ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,957, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Cooling device" was invented by Tomoaki Yageta (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling device includes a refrigerant flow path provided in a propulsion system of a ship; an electric pump configured to cause a refrigerant or a cleaning medium to flow through the refrigerant flow path; and a control unit configured to control operations of the propulsion system and the electric pump. The control unit executes each of a plurality of operating modes including a first operating mode (normal operating mode) which drives the propulsion system and the electr...