US Patent Issued to MAN Truck & Bus on June 24 for "Method and device for providing a storage capacity reserve in a traction battery for imminent downhill drive" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,726, issued on June 24, was assigned to MAN Truck & Bus SE (Munich).

"Method and device for providing a storage capacity reserve in a traction battery for imminent downhill drive" was invented by Philipp Wagner (Munich), Christian Haupt (Munich) and Julius Engasser (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method (100) for providing a storage capacity reserve in a traction battery (20) for an electrically driven motor vehicle (50), preferably commercial vehicle, for an upcoming downhill drive. The method (100) comprises detecting (S1) whether an electric charging operation of the traction battery (20) ...