ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,216, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Thermal management of a vehicle computing system" was invented by Jason Clemans (Paradise, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer thermal regulation (CTR) systems and methods for thermal energy (TE) regulation of vehicle computers designed to operate within a target temperature range (TTR). A vehicle HVAC system includes a computer heat exchanger in the computer including a phase change material (PCM) with a phase change temperature (PCT). When the computer is below a TTR lower limit, the CTR system causes the HVAC system to run a heating cycle, heating t...