US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Electrified vehicle with wound rotor synchronous electric machine controlled to heat battery" (Michigan, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,864, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle with wound rotor synchronous electric machine controlled to heat battery" was invented by Matthew Penne (Hadar, Neb.) and Jonathan Hair (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes a wound rotor synchronous electric machine configured to provide propulsive torque to wheels of the electrified vehicle and having a rotor with rotor windings and a stator with stator windings, a battery electrically coupled to the electric machine, a cooling system arranged to circulate a cooling fluid that tran...