ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,350, issued on March 24, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Electric vehicle battery temperature control for charging vehicle fleets" was invented by Darren Hau (San Jose, Calif.) and Kenneth Ferguson (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat transfer system regulates the flow of a coolant or heating fluid to the battery of an electric vehicle (EV). Heat transfer systems may be located at charging facilities for charging EVs in an EV fleet. A fleet manager may direct an EV to a particular charging facility to appropriately cool or heat the EV battery during charging; different charging facilities...