US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 21 for "Vehicle thermal control system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,389, issued on July 21, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Vehicle thermal control system" was invented by Paul Raymond Mueller (San Leandro, Calif.) and Qinling Zheng (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes methods, apparatuses, and systems for determining energy budget data based at least in part on route data and/or environmental data and controlling one or more settings associated with a vehicle based at least in part on the energy budget data. For example, a system can receive route data associated with a route for a vehicle to travel from a first location to a second locatio...