ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,511, issued on June 24, was assigned to VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE FRANCE SAS (Cergy, France).

"Plastic cover for closing a fluid-based cooling circuit for an item of electrical equipment" was invented by Rudy Bastistella (Herblay, France), Aurelien Pouilly (Poissy, France), Aymeric Fouque (Cergy, France), Emmanuel Talon (Cergy, France), Pierre Smal (Cergy, France) and Gregory Hodedourg (Cergy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a closure cover (10) for closing a fluid-based cooling circuit for an item of electrical equipment (30), notably of a motor vehicle, said closure cover (10) being made of pl...