US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on June 10 for "Multi-purpose battery thermal component" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,328, issued on June 10, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Multi-purpose battery thermal component" was invented by Curtis Wesley Chauvin (Orange, Calif.), Shidao Wang (Irvine, Calif.), Jianwu Cao (Irvine, Calif.), Shawn Wood Hanna (New Westminister, Canada) and Maryam Yazdanpour (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for a multi-purpose thermal component are provided. The system can include a thermal component to interface with a battery and an electrical component, and a controller in electrical communication with the thermal component. The controller can cause the the...