ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,101, issued on May 27, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Thermal hydraulic active warming system" was invented by Carlos Alexander Fenny (Fort Worth, Texas), David Perry Schultz (Grand Prairie, Texas), Robert Reynolds (Euless, Texas) and Rodney Cahoon (Argyle, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft thermal hydraulic active-warming system includes an active thermal-warming valve interoperably coupled between a hydraulic pressure line and a hydraulic low-pressure return line and a hydraulic actuator arranged in parallel with the active thermal-warming valve between the hydraulic pressure line and t...