US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Sept. 16 for "Method for analyzing the condition of a traction battery, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,424, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for analyzing the condition of a traction battery, and motor vehicle" was invented by Ralf Pfennigwerth (Lehre, Germany), Christian Wick (Cremlingen, Germany) and Gerd Stoehr (Wesendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle and method for analyzing the condition of a traction battery of a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle includes an electric or hybrid propulsion system with an electric motor for driving the motor vehicle, power electronics for driving the electric motor, a battery management system with a monitoring device ...