ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,324, issued on June 10, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Direct current fast charging cooling control" was invented by Tyler Jennings Bennett (Long Beach, Calif.), Won Tae Joe (Irvine, Calif.) and Kok Wei Koh (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technical solutions provide a model-based cooling control of an EV battery during a direct current fast charging (DCFC) event. The technical solutions can include a processor coupled with memory to identify a state of charge (SOC), a temperature threshold and a gradient threshold for a difference in temperature between at least two cells of an EV batt...