ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,736, issued on May 27, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for thermal preconditioning a thermal buffer in a vehicle" was invented by Linus Nordholm (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jerker Lennevi (Lerum, Sweden), Robert Karlsson (Kallekarr, Sweden) and Devraj Dutt (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for thermal preconditioning at least one thermal buffer in a thermal system of a vehicle, the thermal system being a rechargeable energy storage system, RESS, and/or an energy transformation system comprising fuel cells. The method includes providing scheduled operational information of the therma...