ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,401, issued on April 8, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).
"Power management system for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Kaixin Zheng (San Diego), Xiaoling Han (San Diego), Zehua Huang (San Diego), Yue Pan (San Diego) and Zhaohan Jia (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management system is disclosed for managing power in a vehicle. The system may include a power distribution unit (PDU) communicably coupled to a power controller unit located in the vehicle. The power controller unit comprises a microcontroller configured to: receive, from the PDU, a temperature value that indicates a temperature of the PDU, o...