US Patent Issued to A123 SYSTEMS on May 5 for "Predictive thermal models for current and power capability estimation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,634, issued on May 5, was assigned to A123 SYSTEMS LLC (Novi, Mich.).

"Predictive thermal models for current and power capability estimation" was invented by Wei Zhao (Novi, Mich.), Yufeng Liu (Northville, Mich.) and Shawn Zhang (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for predictive thermal models for determining current and power capabilities of battery components of a battery-powered system. In one example, a method may include measuring a reference temperature of a first component of the battery-powered system, correlating a target temperature of a second component of the battery-powered system t...