US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for delivering a thermal shock" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,060, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Method and apparatus for delivering a thermal shock" was invented by Fen Chen (Morgan Hill, Calif.), David Fain (San Francisco), Geoffrey Maines (Oakland, Calif.) and Wen-chieh Tang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure relates to a system and method for testing units-under-test (UUT) with a thermal shock. The thermal shock testing system can include a chamber having an inlet and an outlet, the chamber being configured to provide a thermal shock to a unit-under-test (UUT), a pump configured to fluidly connect to the inlet ...