US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 15 for "Systems and methods for conditioning a battery" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,491, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for conditioning a battery" was invented by David Cox (London), Bastian Hartman (Hurth, Germany), Martin England (Chelmsford, Great Britain) and Kai Scholz-Starke (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system are provided to select a battery control strategy for a hybrid battery of a hybrid electric vehicle. The methods comprise receiving forecast weather information at a first location, determining an operational parameter of the hybrid battery, and selecting a first battery control strategy ...