US Patent Issued to Bergstrom on March 4 for "Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle HVAC system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,295, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bergstrom Inc. (Rockford, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle HVAC system" was invented by Brett S. Connell (Winnebago, Ill.), Aaron D. Sullivan (Winnebago, Ill.), Brett J. Herrmann (Rochelle, Ill.) and Terry Zeigler (Byron, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are climate systems for vehicles and methods for controlling the climate systems. In some implementations, a climate system includes: (1) a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature within the compartment of the vehicle; (2) a first compressor powered by an engine of the vehicle to compress a refri...