ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,224, issued on Aug. 11.
"Interior environment control" was invented by Mary Clover Apelian (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Lin Yu (Westwood, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented process for controlling a vehicle interior includes detecting a previously defined situation that relates to an undesirable environmental condition of the vehicle interior, and assessing both a risk level and an urgency level, based on a vehicle sensor input. The process also includes generating a vehicle command based upon the detected previously defined situation, the assessed risk level, and assessed urgency level, and executing the generated...