US Patent Issued to AMPERE on July 14 for "Method for detecting a motor vehicle overweight state, and method for managing the charge of a traction battery" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,326, issued on July 14, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"Method for detecting a motor vehicle overweight state, and method for managing the charge of a traction battery" was invented by Abdelkrim Moujib (Guyancourt, France) and Frederic Roudeau (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method detects a vehicle overweight state for a vehicle equipped with a power unit including a traction battery. The method selects a number of vehicle acceleration phases. The method includes, for each selected acceleration phase: calculating a mean value of a differential force equal to a value of the traction...