ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,636, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Power and thermal management systems and methods for autonomous vehicles" was invented by David Patrick Rice (Wexford, Pa.) and Scott Klaus Boehmke (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for power and thermal management of autonomous vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system includes processor(s) and one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer readable media that collectively store instructions that when executed by the processor(s) cause the computing system to perform operations. The operations include...