ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,729, issued on July 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Temperature raising device, temperature raising program, and temperature raising method" was invented by Yasumichi Onuki (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature raising device includes a switch element control unit that executes a duty ratio control process of increasing one duty ratio which is one of duty ratios of a first switch element and a second switch element and a duty ratio of a third switch element from 0% from an initial state where the first switch element, the second switch element, and the third switch element are in a non-energized...