US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Dec. 23 for "Augmented cooling of electric vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,948, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Augmented cooling of electric vehicle" was invented by Peter Paul Andruskiewicz IV (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Neeraj S. Shidore (Novi, Mich.), Chih-hung Yen (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Satish P. Ketkar (Troy, Mich.) and Justin Skorski (Swartz Creek, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system for a rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) of a vehicle includes a coolant circuit configured to direct a coolant flow through the RESS to remove thermal energy from the RESS, and a refrigerant circuit through which a flow of refrigerant is circulated....