US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Methods and system for balancing torque request during battery power control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,776, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and system for balancing torque request during battery power control" was invented by Yanan Zhao (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ming Kuang (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for operating an electric vehicle during conditions when output of an electric energy storage device is limited. In one example, torque commands of left and right electric machines are adjusted in equal amounts so that output of the electric energy storage device may be limited. The approach may be applied to electric machines on fron...