US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Aug. 5 for "Automatic orientation of hvac air vents to occupant" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,709, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Automatic orientation of hvac air vents to occupant" was invented by Kamalesh Bhambare (Novi, Mich.), Danny Jierian (Diamond Bar, Calif.) and Graham Lloyd Feltham (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for an air vent system in, for example, a vehicle. The air vent system is configured to direct air flow to a point relative to a user's position in the vehicle. A camera may capture a view of the user and processing circuitry may analyze the captured information to determine a position of the user in the vehicle and ...