US Patent Issued to BAIDU USA on July 15 for "Environmental control system for computing hardware in an autonomous driving vehicle" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,580, issued on July 15, was assigned to BAIDU USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Environmental control system for computing hardware in an autonomous driving vehicle" was invented by Peng Cheng (Redmond, Wash.) and Xu Zhou (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed of a thermal enclosure for use in an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). The thermal enclosure includes an enclosure having a top, a bottom, and an interior compartment having a floor and a ceiling. The thermal enclosure is adapted to be mounted in the ADV. An electronic component is positioned in the interior compartment and thermally coupled to the ...