US Patent Issued to FCA US on April 8 for "System for selective liquid cooling of an air intake duct" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,362, issued on April 8, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"System for selective liquid cooling of an air intake duct" was invented by Sreekanth Surapaneni (Oakland, Mich.) and Uday Kiran Mahakali (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system, includes an air intake assembly including an inlet through which air flows, a filter downstream of the inlet, and an outlet downstream of the filter through which air from the filter flows, a liquid source, a valve, a temperature indicator and a controller. The valve is electrically actuated and arranged to selectively permit liquid flow from the liquid source to t...