US Patent Issued to FCA US on March 24 for "Techniques for managing power distribution between electrified vehicle loads and high voltage battery system during low state of charge conditions" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,435, issued on March 24, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Techniques for managing power distribution between electrified vehicle loads and high voltage battery system during low state of charge conditions" was invented by Rudolf Kharpuri (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Venkatasubramanian Sankara Raman (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrified vehicle energy management techniques include determining when a state of charge (SOC) of a high voltage (HV) battery system is below an SOC threshold and, in response, determining whether an electric motor is operating as a generator or a consumer, when the ...