US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 8 for "Method and control device for temperature control of a traction battery of an electrically powered motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,071, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and control device for temperature control of a traction battery of an electrically powered motor vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Baudisch (Munich), Simone Fuchs (Munich) and Harald Hofmeier (Eching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for temperature control of a traction battery includes predefining a target temperature which the traction battery should have at the end of a journey and upon arrival at a fast-charging station; predicting a temperature which the traction battery will have at the end of the journey and upon arrival at th...