US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on May 27 for "Solar aggressiveness factor for determining airflow and discharge temperature of a vehicle HVAC system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,733, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Solar aggressiveness factor for determining airflow and discharge temperature of a vehicle HVAC system" was invented by Zachary Kyle Moul (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Ean Joshua Hall (Long Beach, Calif.), Paulo Lucena Kreppel Paes (Irvine, Calif.), Dewashish Prashad (Irvine, Calif.) and Ajay Panekkad (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a system configured to supply air to a cabin of a vehicle at a target discharge temperature. One or more solar sensors configured to sense a solar radiation on the cabin and one or more tem...