ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,226, issued on June 23, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Self-adaptive thermal management systems and methods thereof" was invented by Ziqi Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to a self-adaptive thermal management system. The thermal management system includes a first body, a second body, and a third body. The second body has a first layer and a second layer formed from a Weyl semimetal...