US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 25 for "Electrified vehicle with inverter controlled to heat traction battery" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,561, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle with inverter controlled to heat traction battery" was invented by Mohammad Sameer Khan (Windsor, Canada), Jonathan Hair (Northville, Mich.) and Matthew Penne (Pierce, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for an electrified vehicle, such as a battery electric vehicle (BEV), includes an inverter and a controller. The inverter is configured to drive a traction motor with electrical power from a traction battery, such as a lithium ion phosphate (LFP) traction battery, according to a configuration of a power switch (e.g....