US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Methods and system for thermal management of an electric energy storage device" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,146, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and system for thermal management of an electric energy storage device" was invented by Yanan Zhao (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiaohong Duan (Canton, Mich.), Angel Porras (Dearborn, Mich.) and Julia Helen Buckland Seeds (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for controlling a temperature of an electric energy storage device of via a cooling device are disclosed. In one example, a temperature of an electric energy storage device may be permitted to increase when a vehicle is within a threshold distance of an expected parki...