ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,802, issued on May 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Switching control selection logic in high-speed loop in MODACS" was invented by Jun-mo Kang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Dave Gerard Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle, system and method of operating a battery having a plurality of modules, each module having a plurality of strings. The vehicle includes the battery. A processor operates the plurality of modules in a first phase of a mode of operation, calculates a model-predicted path vector for the first phase based on a time for reducing a difference between states o...