ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,341, issued on April 15, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method for heating a tank" was invented by Sonny Borsoi (Toulouse, France) and Sorour Bahja (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for heating liquid in a tank, including: providing at least one heating element of PTC type; providing a pulse width modulation regulator; measuring parameters including the temperature of the liquid and the voltage applied across the terminals of each heating element; heating the liquid without regulation, insofar as the temperature of the liquid is below a first threshold temperature; ...