US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Methods and system for charging and heating a traction battery" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,948, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and system for charging and heating a traction battery" was invented by Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.) and Petros G. Taskas (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a vehicle power system are described. The vehicle power system includes an inverter and an electric machine. Switches and a diode are arranged in a way that allows a traction battery to be charged by either a lower voltage charger or a higher voltage charger. Additionally, the switches and diode allow the vehicle power system to heat the tracti...