ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,817, issued on April 7, was assigned to Valeo Systemes Thermiques (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France).

"Fluid-heating device, in particular for a vehicle" was invented by Jonathan Fournier (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France), Laurent Decool (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France), Arnaud Faivre (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France) and Serif Karaaslan (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electric fluid-heating device (1), in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a housing having a first fluid-circulation chamber (21), at least one electric heating element (4) for heating the fluid in said f...