US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Dec. 2 for "Adaptive vehicle HVAC system dependent on operator location relative to vehicle" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,725, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Adaptive vehicle HVAC system dependent on operator location relative to vehicle" was invented by Graham Lloyd Feltham (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining, by processing circuitry, a vehicle occupant has left a cabin of a vehicle (or that the cabin is unoccupied), where the vehicle comprises a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. In response to determining the vehicle occupant has left the cabin (or the cabin is unoccupied), the processing circuitry may adjust a parameter of ...