US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Aug. 4 for "Dual active bridge control for thermal management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,806, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Dual active bridge control for thermal management" was invented by Mohammad Nanda R. Marwali (Irvine, Calif.), Zahra Mohajerani (Los Angeles), Vishnu Mohan (Long Beach, Calif.) and Vishnu Narayan Vipin (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes four primary-side switches of a primary bridge of a dual active bridge (DAB) converter, four secondary-side switches of a secondary bridge of the DAB converter, and control circuitry configured to operate the DAB converter in a first mode, where all of the four secondary-side switches operat...