US Patent Issued to PACCAR on Sept. 8 for "Hydronic occupant zone heating and cooling" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,692, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Hydronic occupant zone heating and cooling" was invented by Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart (Bellingham, Wash.), Mazen Nabil Nachawati (Arlington, Texas) and Nicholas Lee Hertlein (Bellingham, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an occupant zone, a battery, a battery heating and cooling system, sensors, and a battery management system. The battery heating and cooling system includes a refrigeration circuit and a fluid battery circuit, the fluid battery circuit including a battery heating/cooling loop and a hydronic system heating/cooling loop. Th...