ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,199, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Battery conditioning system and method" was invented by Vivek Narsimhan Surya (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle includes a scheduler configured to invoke conditioning of a battery preceding a time specified by a user. The scheduler instructs a VDM ECU to output a current requirement to drive motors according to a selected drive mode of a vehicle. A BMS ECU receives the current requirement and outputs a temperature requirement required to achieve the current requirement according to a composition of the battery. Th...