US Patent Issued to Jaguar Land Rover on Aug. 25 for "Controlling thermal energy from vehicle regenerative braking" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,302, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. (Whitley, Great Britain).

"Controlling thermal energy from vehicle regenerative braking" was invented by James Matthews (Leamington Spa, Great Britain) and Atharva Sapte (Warwickshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a control system (200), a vehicle (1), a method (500), and computer software, for controlling thermal energy capture of vehicle kinetic energy of a vehicle. The control system (200) is configured to determine whether to enter a first regenerative braking energy conversion mode or a second regenerative braking energy conversion m...