ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,775, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Traction battery thermal management" was invented by Lars Niklas Pettersson (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a traction battery having a plurality of cells arranged in arrays and grouped into a plurality of cooling zones. A thermal management system includes a plurality of distinct circuits each associated with one of the zones. The thermal management system is configured to provide individual heating or cooling to each of the circuits to independently control temperatures of the zones. A controller is programmed to, i...