ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,509, issued on June 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Temperature control system" was invented by Hayata Mimatsu (Tokyo), Satoshi Inoue (Tokyo) and Tomoyuki Yamamuro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature control system includes a battery; a power electronics device that converts high-voltage electric power; an air passage; an inside-air intake passage and an outside-air intake passage that acquire inside air and outside air of a vehicle, and supply the airs to the air passage; an intake opening/closing member that opens and closes between the air passage and each of the intake passages; a passage switch that sw...