US Patent Issued to GENTHERM on Sept. 23 for "Thermal control using repeated thermoreceptor stimulation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,685, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GENTHERM Inc. (Novi, Mich.).

"Thermal control using repeated thermoreceptor stimulation" was invented by Adam Joseph Steinman (Ferndale, Mich.) and James Francis Gallagher (Walled Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes supplying an amount of power to a thermal system to effect a temperate change of a touch surface; determining a rate of the temperature change of the touch surface; comparing the determined rate of the temperature change to a predetermined rate threshold; and changing the amount of power supplied to the thermal system after the comparing step based on...