US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on March 3 for "Thermal system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,621, issued on March 3, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Thermal system" was invented by Ming Ma (Tustin, Calif.), Khaled Bahel-Eldin (Irvine, Calif.), Heng Kang (Los Angeles), Xingyu Ren (Irvine, Calif.) and Srivatsan Madhavan (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus. The apparatus can include an actuator having a plurality of openings. Each of the plurality of openings can couple with a thermal management loop. The thermal management loop can couple with a battery module cold plate. The actuator can select, based on a parameter, one fluid channel of t...