US Patent Issued to FCA US on April 21 for "Techniques for controlling energy consumption and enhancing systemic efficiency through management of thermal devices for electrified vehicles" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,025, issued on April 21, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Techniques for controlling energy consumption and enhancing systemic efficiency through management of thermal devices for electrified vehicles" was invented by Abhilash Gudapati (Troy, Mich.), Rudolph Kharpuri (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Raviteja Chanumolu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control and thermal management method for an electrified vehicle includes, in response to a valid wakeup request, transmitting, by a supervisory controller and via a local interconnect (LIN) bus, timing instructions for operation of a set of thermal systems ...