ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,210, issued on Oct. 28.
"Systems and methods to heat a fluid contained in a tank attached to a vehicle" was invented by Aed M. Dudar (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for heating a fluid being transported in a vehicle. An example method includes identifying, by a processor, a target fluid temperature and determining, based on the target fluid temperature, a separation distance between a tank attached to an underbody of the vehicle and an inductive heating element embedded in a road. The processor lowers the tank to a heating position above the inductive heating elem...