ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,614, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Karma Automotive LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Battery power limits estimation based on RC model" was invented by Jing Hong (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Suvrat Ramasubramanian (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Ali Jokar (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating a maximum power limit of a battery cell at a specified prediction time using an improved RC equivalent circuit battery model and based on the battery cell's state of charge (SOC), temperature, and state of health (SOH). The method includes determining the battery cell's peak and continuous current limits, predicting a peak volta...