ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,274, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"System unit and method for deicing a spigot of a petrol pump of a filling station device having such a system unit" was invented by Claus Grote (Ansbach, Germany) and Matthias Brunner (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system unit (100) having a tank storage system (20) that can be filled with fuel, a consumer system (101), and a cooling circuit (10), which is connected to the consumer system (101), for cooling the consumer system (101). A latent heat store (30) is arranged in the system unit (100), which latent heat store (30) is in...