US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 30 for "Traction battery controller providing fast and accurate state of charge status" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,944, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery controller providing fast and accurate state of charge status" was invented by Yonghua Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Marcelo Araujo Xavier (Belleville, Mich.), Qi Jiao (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Justin T. Hughes (Allen Park, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery controller of an electrified vehicle dynamically selects an estimation gain based on an operating condition of the vehicle and controls the vehicle according to a state (e.g., a state-of-charge (SOC)) of the traction battery estimated from an equivalent circuit mod...