US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 28 for "Traction battery controller utilizing voltage rebound of parallel-connected battery cells to detect for a thermal event" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,198, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery controller utilizing voltage rebound of parallel-connected battery cells to detect for a thermal event" was invented by Di Zhu (Novi, Mich.), Benjamin A. Tabatowski-Bush (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Patterson Kaduvinal Abraham (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a thermal event of a battery, such as a traction battery of an electrified vehicle, includes monitoring a voltage of a group of parallel-connected cells of the battery. In response to confirming that the voltage of the group has a voltage rebo...