US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 18 for "Charge time estimating method and system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,568, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Charge time estimating method and system" was invented by Charles Everett Badger II (Westland, Mich.) and Dima Alame (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strategy selection method for estimating a charge time includes, when a target state of charge for a traction battery is a full charge, establishing an estimated time required to charge the traction battery using a first strategy, and when a target state of charge for the traction battery is less than a full charge, establishing the estimated time required to charge the traction b...