ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,979, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Maintaining method for cooling system" was invented by Yasuaki Kodama (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of maintaining a cooling system includes the steps of introducing an ion exchange resin into a cooling path, performing ion cleaning of a coolant in the cooling path with the ion exchange resin, and adding an additive to the cooling path after removing the ion exchange resin from the cooling path."

The patent was filed on June 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/207,811.

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