US Patent Issued to Valeo Systemes Thermiques on Nov. 11 for "Coolant circuit for vehicle and method for controlling such a circuit" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,238, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Valeo Systemes Thermiques (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France).

"Coolant circuit for vehicle and method for controlling such a circuit" was invented by Bertrand Nicolas (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France) and Mohamed Yahia (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a thermal regulation circuit of a vehicle. The circuit includes first and second heat exchangers situated in series in a direction in which an air flow is intended to pass through each heat exchanger. The circuit also includes an additional heat exchanger situated upstream of the first heat exchange...