US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 27 for "Electrified vehicle configured to adjust engine pull up/down thresholds based on battery state of health" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,777, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle configured to adjust engine pull up/down thresholds based on battery state of health" was invented by Yanan Zhao (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiaohong Nina Duan (Canton, Mich.) and Ming Lang Kuang (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes a traction battery, an engine, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate a request for the engine in response to an input passing a threshold and to adjust the threshold when a state of health (SOH) of the traction battery is at a chance of violating...