US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on March 17 for "Method for monitoring an air-conditioned passenger compartment of a vehicle, and air-conditioning arrangement for carrying out such a method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,691, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Method for monitoring an air-conditioned passenger compartment of a vehicle, and air-conditioning arrangement for carrying out such a method" was invented by Gerhard Reiss (Krefeld, Germany) and Alexander Hildebrandt (Bochum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method monitors a passenger compartment of a vehicle for transporting passengers with respect to heat stress that occurs to passengers. The method includes the steps of: a) calculating an estimated value for the WBGT index in the passenger compartment on the basis of measured values which are signa...