ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,757, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Cooling method and system" was invented by Ashwin Hariharan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hamish Lewis (Troy, Mich.) and Ron Razzano (Rochester Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for cooling an electric energy storage device are described. In one example, a temperature set point of a cooling system is reduced before a vehicle reaches a location along a travel route where load on the electric energy storage device is expected to be greater than a threshold load. By lowering the temperature set point, it may be possible to maint...