ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,530, issued on June 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Cooling water circuit" was invented by Takahiro Maeda (Kariya, Japan), Yoshiki Katoh (Kariya, Japan), Masamichi Makihara (Kariya, Japan), Kuniyoshi Tanioka (Kariya, Japan) and Kouji Miura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling water circuit includes: a heat-radiating heat exchanger in which a cooling water is heated by heat radiated from an external heat medium; a heat-absorbing heat exchanger in which a cooling water is cooled by heat absorbed by an external heat medium; and a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger in which heat is excha...