ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,995, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Battery electric vehicle temperature-regulation system" was invented by Andrew Swantek (Park Ridge, Ill.), Peter Quade (Walsrode, Del.), Daniel Wenzel (Wipperfuerth, Del.), Michael Henker (Kunshan, China) and Eric Rask (River Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuated valveless architecture system includes a first screw pump, a second screw pump, and a plurality of check valves. The plurality of check valves is fluidically coupled with at least one of the first screw pump and the second screw pump. The plurality of check valves is configu...