ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,072, issued on July 1, was assigned to Valeo Systemes Thermiques (Le Mesnil Saint Denis, France).
"Thermal management system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Daniel Neveu (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France) and Omar Zoubairi (Le Mesnil Saint-Denis, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a thermal management system for a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, the system comprising a processing unit designed to determine an operative temperature setpoint TOC(t), also referred to as the operative comfort temperature, at a given time, and to use this operative temperature setpoint to manage the thermal comfort i...