ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,332, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery temperature control system" was invented by Toru Ogaki (Tokyo) and Syuhei Kouchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery temperature control system, maintaining a temperature of a battery mounted on an electric vehicle within a target temperature range while the electric vehicle is stopped, includes: an environment estimation unit configured to estimate an environment in which the electric vehicle is stopped; a reference temperature setting unit configured to set a reference temperature from a plurality of pieces of temperature information based on...