US Patent Issued to FCA US on Oct. 28 for "Techniques for expediting electrified vehicle propulsion functionalities using a multi-core supervisory controller" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,185, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Techniques for expediting electrified vehicle propulsion functionalities using a multi-core supervisory controller" was invented by Abhilash Gudapati (Troy, Mich.), Varun Khemchandani (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Kunal Waykole (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expedited start-up procedure of an electrified vehicle involves a hybrid control processor (HCP) connected to a controller area network (CAN) having electrified powertrain (ePT) modules and an auxiliary HCP (AHCP) connected to the CAN and connected to the HCP via a hardwire wakeup line. In r...