ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,223, issued on April 15, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Coolant circuit in a vehicle" was invented by Philipp Buecherl (Schmidgaden, Germany) and Florian Schneider (Eichenau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coolant circuit in a vehicle includes a first flow control unit disposed in a main duct between an engine and a radiator. The first flow control unit, as a function of a temperature of a coolant, thermostatically controls a flow of the coolant. A bypass duct is fluidically disposed parallel to the radiator where the bypass duct opens into the main duct after the radiator and branches off the main du...