US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 29 for "Engine cooling system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,687, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Engine cooling system" was invented by Shoichi Akiyama (Toyota, Japan), Tatsunobu Murai (Okazaki, Japan), Sohichi Imai (Toyota, Japan) and Rihito Kaneko (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine cooling system includes a cooling circuit including a circulation path circulating coolant between an engine and a heater core for heating, by an engine water pump causing coolant to flow to the engine and a heater core water pump causing coolant to flow to the heater core; and a controller controlling the engine water pump and the heater core water...