US Patent Issued to FCA US on March 17 for "Energy management in heavy duty trucks using inefficient motor operation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,726, issued on March 17, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Energy management in heavy duty trucks using inefficient motor operation" was invented by Nursefa Zengin (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Joseph Falcon (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Diego Fernando Valencia Garcia (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Sezai Osman Oder (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy management method for a range-extended electrified vehicle (REEV) includes, in response to enablement of an inefficiency mode of the REEV, utilizing inefficient motor loss maps specifically for the inefficiency mode and separate from maximum efficiency motor loss...