US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 14 for "Vehicle cabin and rechargeable energy storage system heating" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,160, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle cabin and rechargeable energy storage system heating" was invented by Srinivasa Rao Vaddiraju (Troy, Mich.) and Jeffrey A. Bozeman (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a vehicle having a rechargeable energy storage system includes a refrigerant circuit having a flow of refrigerant circulated therethrough. The refrigerant circuit includes a compressor, an internal condenser, and a chiller heat exchanger. A coolant circuit is fluidly connected to the refrigerant ...