ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,506, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Valeo Systemes Thermiques (La Verriere, France).

"Thermal conditioning circuit" was invented by Laurent Delaforge (La Verriere, France), Thibaut Perrin (La Verriere, France), Rody El Chammas (La Verriere, France) and Muriel Porto (La Verriere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a thermal conditioning system including a refrigerant circuit having: a main loop including in succession: a compression device, a condenser configured to exchange heat with a first heat transfer fluid, a first expansion device, a first evaporator, a bypass branch including a second expansio...