US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP, Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. on April 14 for "Vehicle compartment air replacement" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,195, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China).

"Vehicle compartment air replacement" was invented by Johan Setterberg (Gothenburg, Sweden), Mans Pihlsgard (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Erik Lindberg Nilsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a vehicle prior to an occupant entering the vehicle includes acquiring information indicative of an upcoming time of entry of the occupant into a compartment of the vehicle, and commencing air replacement of at least part of the air in the comp...