US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for pre-conditioning a vehicle" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,289, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for pre-conditioning a vehicle" was invented by Amanda Miller (Oshkosh, Wis.), Mike J. Bolton (Oshkosh, Wis.), Jeff Verhagen (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Chris Goodman (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for pre-conditioning a refuse vehicle includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a scheduled deployment time of the refuse vehicle. The processing circuitry is also configured to perform a first pre-conditioning operation by operating a charging system to charge batteries of the refuse veh...