ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,105, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Garrett Transportation I Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Battery thermal controls for batteries used in electric vehicles and power wall applications" was invented by Tomas Poloni (Malinovo, Slovak Republic) and Paul Dickinson (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes implementing an inverted degradation model to determine an optimal battery core temperature. The inverted degradation model receives as inputs one or more of a power state value indicating whether the battery is currently in a high-power state or a low power state, a battery temperature value representing ...