US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 2 for "Systems and methods for managing the heating of thermal fluids" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,041, issued on Sept. 2, 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).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for operating at least a pair of pumps using a driver. The driver can be coupled to a first portion of a first drive shaft that is not positioned in within an interior area of a thermal fluid tank of a first thermal circuit. A magnetic coupling can couple the first portion to a second portion of the first drive shaft that is within the thermal fluid tank. Rotational displacement of the first portion of the first dr...