US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Temperature based control of vehicle battery" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,673, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Temperature based control of vehicle battery" was invented by Justin T. Hughes (Allen Park, Mich.) and Marcelo Araujo Xavier (Belleville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After start of a vehicle following a parking event having a duration that exceeds a duration threshold, a controller may adjust a maximum output power of a traction battery responsive to temperatures of the traction battery, derived from a temperature of the traction battery at a beginning of the parking event, ambient temperature during the parking event, and the duration...