ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,893, issued on May 6, was assigned to Fives Landis Ltd. (Keighley, Great Britain).

"Temperature control in machine tools" was invented by Matthew Tucker (Bedford, Great Britain), Michael Pierse (Bedford, Great Britain) and Benjamin Pike (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid temperature control apparatus in combination with a machine tool, wherein the apparatus is arranged to adjust the temperature of a fluid being supplied to the machine tool. The apparatus comprises a temperature control assembly for adjusting the temperature of the fluid as it passes through the assembly. The assembly comprises at lea...