US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for battery cell degradation detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,657, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for battery cell degradation detection" was invented by Patterson Abraham (Dearborn, Mich.) and Ai Keramidas (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a high-voltage multi-array battery of a plug-in vehicle. In one example, a method may include monitoring a rate of change of a difference in a maximum cell voltage deviation for at least one array of cells of the high-voltage multi-array battery exceeding a predetermined threshold. In response to the rate of change exceeding the pr...