US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on May 20 for "Vehicle seat for storing thermal energy for occupant comfort" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,274, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Vehicle seat for storing thermal energy for occupant comfort" was invented by Graham Lloyd Feltham (Irvine, Calif.) and Jake DeBoer (Mission Viejo, 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 seat of a vehicle (or the seat is unoccupied), and in response to determining the vehicle occupant has left the seat (or the seat is unoccupied), causing a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system of the vehicle to thermally store energy in the seat."...