US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Control of alternating current battery heating using in-situ measurements" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,663, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Control of alternating current battery heating using in-situ measurements" was invented by Shuonan Xu (Troy, Mich.), Neeraj S. Shidore (Novi, Mich.), Robert D. Schmidt (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Steven Earl Muldoon (Royal Oak, Mich.), Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.), Robert D. Drexler (Madison Heights, Mich.) and Antonio Duaine Ulisse (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for thermal control of a battery system includes a heating control module configured to generate an alternating current (AC) heating current and heat the battery...