ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,731, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Cooling performance indicator" was invented by Tobias Volk (Sulzemoos, Germany), Rosario Davide Bruno (Munich), Andreas Klemm (Munich) and Ludwig Schirmacher (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system for a vehicle includes a processing device configured to determine a coolant system status based on a coolant temperature and determine whether the coolant system status exceeds a coolant system status threshold. The processing device is also configured to determine a thermal load status of at least one electrical component of the...