ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,122, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Temperature adjusting device and vehicle" was invented by Yasushi Ogihara (Wako, Japan) and Yasuo Yamada (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature adjusting device includes a temperature adjusting circuit configured to circulate a thermal medium, a first temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the thermal medium, a battery thermally connected to the temperature adjusting circuit, a second temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the battery, a heat generating instrument thermally connected to the temperature adjus...