ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,093, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China).
"Method for preconditioning vehicles" was invented by Albin Hagstrom (Lodose, Sweden) and Jonathan Johansson (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preconditioning vehicles of a vehicle fleet, wherein vehicles of the vehicle fleet are provided at a vehicle fleet parking area when not used. The method includes the step of preconditioning a number of the vehicles of the vehicle fleet parked at the vehicle fleet parking area before such a vehicle is to be used, and the step of selecting the number of vehicle...