US Patent Issued to FCA US on July 29 for "Electrical energy management of heat transfer devices for vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,931, issued on July 29, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Electrical energy management of heat transfer devices for vehicles" was invented by Mark J Duty (Goodrich, Mich.), Daniel R King (Brockway, Mich.), Shantanu Ajankar (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Yugandhara P Joshi (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy management techniques for heating or cooling a surface of a component of a vehicle comprise determining a heating lag time indicative of a lag time for a surface element of the vehicle component to heat to a first target temperature in response to a power on-off or power off-on modulation...