US Patent Issued to GENTHERM on Aug. 25 for "Method for controlling a conductive or convective effector" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,265, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GENTHERM Inc. (Novi, Mich.).

"Method for controlling a conductive or convective effector" was invented by Jeremy Swanson (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Tyler Myers (Plymouth, Mich.), Chad Westerman (Milford, Mich.), Satya Naren Karthik Mandali (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Ankit Tiwari (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a thermal effector in a vehicle. The method comprises calculating a heat transfer rate relative to a conditioned medium and calculating a target temperature of the thermal effector required to effectuate the he...