ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,804, issued on May 27, was assigned to Quantumscape Battery Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Battery thermal management system and methods of use" was invented by Kevin Hettrich (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tomasz Wojcik (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Set forth herein are systems and methods for determining battery heating conditions and pre-heating lead times of at least a minute or more, based on input parameters and sets of input parameters, to predictively and dynamically heat a secondary battery so that the battery has a specific power output and performance level when used in an electric or hybrid vehicle application...