ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,692, issued on March 17, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Thermal management control systems and methods" was invented by Rajeev Verma (Bangalore, India), Venkateswara Reddy Maram (Bangalore, India) and Vinay Ramu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include monitoring a discharge temperature of a compressor of a powered system while the compressor is in an unpowered state, and changing the state of the compressor from the unpowered state to an unloaded powered state to start operation of the compressor responsive to the discharge temperature of the compressor reachi...