US Patent Issued to FCA US on Nov. 11 for "Current regulation overcharge protection for vehicle battery systems" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,283, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Current regulation overcharge protection for vehicle battery systems" was invented by Zhentao Xie (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Moustapha Diab (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Rudolf Kharpuri (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrified vehicle battery overcharge protection techniques monitor an intelligent battery sensor (IBS) current signal via a controller area network communication (CAN-C) bus and an output current of an auxiliary power module (APM) when the IBS current signal is unavailable. A controller then intelligently adjusts charging of the batter...