US Patent Issued to Cummins on July 1 for "Power management for hybrid electric vehicles" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,228, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Power management for hybrid electric vehicles" was invented by Dat Duc Le (Columbus, Ind.), Carlos A. Lana (Columbus, Ind.) and Kenneth M. Follen (Greenwood, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for power management of hybrid electric vehicles is provided. In some implementations, a plug-in series hybrid electric vehicle may include an engine, a motor/generator (MG), a traction motor, an energy storage device, and a controller. The controller is coupled to the engine and the MG to control operation of the engine and the MG such that a state-of-ch...