US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 15 for "Systems and methods for managing the heating of thermal fluids" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,338, issued on July 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for managing the heating of thermal fluids" was invented by Steven R. Whiteman (Dubuque, Iowa), Steven R. Sass (Dubuque, Iowa) and Brian D. Spangler (Dubuque, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for warming a battery and operator cab of an electric vehicle. A second thermal fluid is circulated in a second fluid circuit of a primary system, and is heated by an electric heater before being circulated to a first heat exchanger to heat a first thermal fluid in a fluid thermal tank. The heated first thermal fluid is circulated via ...