US Patent Issued to Cummins on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods of battery management and control for a vehicle" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,209, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Systems and methods of battery management and control for a vehicle" was invented by Kenneth M. Follen (Greenwood, Ind.), Arun Prakash Thunga Gopal (Columbus, Ind.), Vivek A. Sujan (Columbus, Ind.), Pinak Jayant Tulpule (Columbus, Ind.) and Mugdha S. Sane (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed that include: determining, by a controller, an estimated propulsion power for a vehicle at a future location of a route at a future time based on at least one of internal information regarding the vehicle, external sta...