US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Oct. 20 for "Vehicle air conditioning control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,917, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle air conditioning control system" was invented by Hideaki Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle air conditioning control system includes one or more mobile terminals and a vehicle air conditioning control apparatus. The one or more mobile terminals each includes a preference data acquisition unit that acquires preference data regarding an air conditioning setting for a corresponding one of the one or more occupants. The vehicle air conditioning control apparatus includes a terminal position detection unit, a seated position detection unit, an identif...