ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,267, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Predicted cooling control systems and methods for electric vehicles" was invented by David J. Langenderfer (Columbus, Ind.), Bin L Liu (Wuhan, China) and Tony Qin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for performing a predicted cooling operation for an electric vehicle (102) using a processor (122), and includes a vehicle monitoring unit (128) configured to monitor one or more vehicle characteristics related to the electric vehicle (102). The one or more vehicle characteristics include look-ahead demand information of one or more components...