US Patent Issued to GENTHERM on June 10 for "Automatic seat thermal comfort control system and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,340, issued on June 10, was assigned to GENTHERM Inc. (Northville, Mich.).

"Automatic seat thermal comfort control system and method" was invented by Ioannis Androulakis (Livonia, Mich.), Vladimir Jovovic (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Chad Westerman (Milford, Mich.), Ankit Tiwari (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Michael Neil Maass (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling occupant thermal comfort includes the steps of driving a temperature in a seating zone to a temperature set point (54), holding the temperature set point in the seating zone for a predetermined time (56), and regulating the temperature in the seati...