US Patent Issued to Gentherm on Feb. 17 for "Optimal control of convective thermal devices" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,223, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Gentherm Inc. (Northville, Mich.).

"Optimal control of convective thermal devices" was invented by Alan Chewter (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Satya Mandali (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Mobashar Ahmad (Troy, Mich.), Ankit Tiwari (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Tyler Myers (Plymouth, Mich.) and Chad Westerman (Milford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal conditioning system for a vehicle seat or other surface includes a thermoelectric Peltier device (TED) with a main side and a waste side. A flap adjusts a proportion of an airflow over the main and waste side airflow paths based on one or more operation...