ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,494, issued on June 17, was assigned to GRUNDFOS HOLDING A/S (Bjerringbro, Denmark).
"System for regulating a temperature of a thermal energy carrying fluid in a sector of a fluid distribution network" was invented by Brian Kongsgaard Nielsen (Bjerringbro, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (15) regulates a temperature of fluid in a sector of a fluid distribution network, including a feed line (11) transporting fluid from a thermal energy source (3) to a thermal energy consumer (7) within the sector and a return line (13) transporting fluid back. A bypass line (17) connects the return line to the feed line, mixing fluid ...