US Patent Issued to Gentherm on June 17 for "Vehicle microclimate personalization based on occupant thermophysiology" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,475, issued on June 17, was assigned to Gentherm Inc. (Novi, Mich.).

"Vehicle microclimate personalization based on occupant thermophysiology" was invented by Alan Chewter (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Chad Westerman (Milford, Mich.), Tyler Myers (Plymouth, Mich.), Jeremy Swanson (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Jun Yang (Windsor, Canada) and Vladimir Jovovic (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing thermal conditioning for a vehicle occupant according to an example of the present disclosure includes determining a respective target temperature for each of a plurality of discrete OPZs. Each OPZ is associated with a different oc...