ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,556, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Heating method and heating system of traction battery" was invented by Xinwei Chen (Ningde, China), Zhimin Dan (Ningde, China), Chengyong Liu (Ningde, China), Wei Zhang (Ningde, China), Yu Yan (Ningde, China) and Xian Huang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating method traction battery. The traction battery is connected to a switch circuit of a motor and configured to supply power to the motor via the switch circuit. The switch circuit includes multiple legs and the multiple legs are connected to the traction batt...