US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 17 for "Thermal management system for managing heating and cooling of an electrified vehicle battery and cabin" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,472, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Thermal management system for managing heating and cooling of an electrified vehicle battery and cabin" was invented by Michael Joseph Giunta (Livonia, Mich.), Christian Brent Schoeneman (Southgate, Mich.) and Todd Louis Wenzel (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary thermal management system includes, among other things, a heater loop, a battery loop, a radiator loop, and a power electronics loop operating within a glycol system. A first valve is in fluid communication with one or more of the heater loop, the battery loop, the radia...