ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,494, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Parking and ventilation management systems for vehicle batteries" was invented by Christopher David Ruppel (Carmel, Ind.), Shrinath Naik (Troy, Mich.) and Bharat Gnanasekaran (Farmington Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques for parking and ventilation management systems for vehicle batteries. An example system includes a processor that determines whether a battery of a vehicle requires cooling. In response to a determination that the battery requires cooling, the processor determines where the vehicle is...