US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 15 for "Predictive fuel cell and battery power management for high sustained load conditions" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,396, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Predictive fuel cell and battery power management for high sustained load conditions" was invented by Naginder Gogna (Northville, Mich.), Jason Meyer (Canton, Mich.), Walter Joseph Ortmann (Saline, Mich.), Stanley L. Bower Jr. (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rajit Johri (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell and battery power management system for a fuel cell-powered vehicle includes an electric traction motor, a traction battery in electrical communication with the electric traction motor, a fuel cell stack in electrical communication ...