ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,838, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Valeo Systemes Thermiques (La Verriere, France).

"Thermal conditioning system" was invented by Mohamed Yahia (La Verriere, France), Bertrand Nicolas (La Verriere, France) and Stefan Karl (La Verriere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal conditioning system including a heat-transfer circuit, a refrigerant circuit including successively: a compressor, a first bi-fluid exchanger and a second bi-fluid exchanger arranged jointly on the refrigerant circuit and on a main loop of the heat-transfer circuit, a first expansion valve, a third bi-fluid exchanger arranged jointly on the refrige...