ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,020, issued on June 23, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for thermal conditioning of a thermal buffer in a vehicle" was invented by Linus Nordholm (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jens Samsioe (Gothenburg, Sweden), Anders Magnusson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Johan Bjernetun (Molnlycke, Sweden), Johan Lindberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Leo Laine (Harryda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for thermal conditioning at least one thermal buffer of a thermal system of a vehicle, the thermal system being a rechargeable energy storage system, RESS, and/or an energy transformation system comprising fuel cells, the t...