ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,726, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Dynamic target state of charge for hybrid vehicle capacity estimation" was invented by Balin Kumar Shrivastava (Waterford, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a system that performs a method of calculating a capacity of a battery of the vehicle. The system includes a processor configured to operate the vehicle to deplete the battery to reach a target low state of charge, measure a resting low state of charge after allowing the battery to rest for a first rest period after the battery reaches the target low state of charge, oper...