ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,793, issued on June 16, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Proactive thermal management system" was invented by Christopher Thomas Cantrell (Jackson, Mich.), Manoj Prakash Gokhale (Magarpatta City, India), Rishabh Kumar Jain (Mundhwa, India), Parag Ashok Gumaste (Pune, India) and Pranavamoorthy Balasubramanian (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system proactively provides cooling to powered components and/or the battery of an aircraft based on expected temperature rises of the components. The thermal management system may monitor maneuver commands input by a pilot and/or may monit...