US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on June 3 for "Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning case with extractor port to ambient" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,114, issued on June 3, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning case with extractor port to ambient" was invented by Jing He (Novi, Mich.), Jamie W. Leadbetter (Woking, Great Britain), Henry Huang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Armando Mendez Abrego (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) includes a case, an ambient inlet port defined in the case and configured to selectively receive air from outside the cabin of a vehicle, a recirculation inlet port defined in the case and configured to selectively receive air from inside...