US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 16 for "Battery pack state of charge estimation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,676, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Battery pack state of charge estimation" was invented by Jun-mo Kang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hanho Yun (Oakland Township, Mich.) and Insu Chang (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring system for a vehicle includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions for causing the processor to estimate a state of charge of a battery based on a current cell pressure of the battery while the state of charge of the battery is below a threshold state of charge and to estimate a state of charge of the battery based on a volt...