ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,399, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method of operating a cooling system" was invented by Hans-Ulrich Steurer (Stuttgart, Germany) and Sascha Lindauer (Schorndorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method for operating a cooling system for a motor vehicle, in particular for an electrically powered motor vehicle, wherein the cooling system has a first cooling circuit, a second cooling circuit, and at least one coolant circuit; wherein the first cooling circuit has at least one first component to be temperature-controlled and an indirect condenser, which are arrang...