ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,494, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Cooling system assembly for bidirectional vehicle" was invented by Rahul Dhananjay Sawant (San Mateo, Calif.), Sharosin Sean Daniels (Burlingame, Calif.), Paul Raymond Mueller (San Leandro, Calif.), Fnu Sanjay Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Samay Shah (Oakland, Calif.), Srinivasa Rao Vaddiraju (Troy, Mich.) and Qinling Zheng (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for operating cooling system assemblies in a vehicle are discussed herein. The vehicle may receive a direction of travel and a speed. The vehicle may determine based on ...