US Patent Issued to FCA US on Jan. 20 for "Kalman filter initialization control strategy" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,383, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Kalman filter initialization control strategy" was invented by Mostafa Ahmed (Windsor, Canada) and Andrew White (Holly, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state of charge (SOC) estimation system for a battery system of an electrified vehicle is configured to detect a change in a measured open-circuit voltage (OCV) of the battery system, wherein the detected change in the measured OCV of the battery system is indicative of a wake-up of a battery pack control module (BPCM), and in response to the detected change in the measured OCV of the battery system, ini...