US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Thermal management system for electrified vehicle using power electronics heat for heating a battery" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,846, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Thermal management system for electrified vehicle using power electronics heat for heating a battery" was invented by Michael Joseph Giunta (Livonia, Mich.), Christian Brent Schoeneman (Southgate, Mich.) and Todd Louis Wenzel (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary thermal management system includes, among other things, a heater loop, a battery loop, a radiator loop, and a power electronics loop operating within a glycol system. A first valve is in fluid communication with one or more of the heater loop, the battery loop, the radiato...