ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,227, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Controlling a HVAC system of a vehicle" was invented by Waad Nassar (Coventry, Great Britain) and Irina Dejanu (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a control system (13) for controlling a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a vehicle (10). The control system (13) receives a cleaning cycle request (22) indicating a requested time to initiate a cleaning cycle performed by the HVAC system, the cleaning cycle being for reducing a level of one or more pollutants in a cabin (12) of the ...