US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on June 24 for "Heat pump with compressor heat boost" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,658, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Heat pump with compressor heat boost" was invented by Chengcai Yao (Northville, Mich.), Graciela Morales Martinez (Irvine, Calif.) and Jing He (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant, a plurality of control valves configured to control a flow of the refrigerant in a vehicle, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is coupled to the plurality of control valves and is configured to achieve a first configuration of the plurality of control valves wherein the refrigerant is recirc...