US Patent Issued to FCA US on March 18 for "Blended charge depletion and navigation-based charge allocation for range-extended electrified vehicles" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,109, issued on March 18, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Blended charge depletion and navigation-based charge allocation for range-extended electrified vehicles" was invented by Dhruvang Rathod (Troy, Mich.), Andy M Lee (Troy, Mich.), Barry A Mason (Bradford, Canada) and Cristian Rostiti (Pontiac, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent battery depletion techniques for a range-extended electrified vehicle (REEV) include receiving at least (i) a state of charge (SOC) of a battery system of the REEV and (ii) a distance for a trip of the REEV, controlling an electrified powertrain (engine and electric motor)...