US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Electric vehicle predictive thermal control" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,267, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric vehicle predictive thermal control" was invented by Qiuhao Hu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ashley Peter Wiese (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Julia Helen Buckland Seeds (Wolverine Lake, Mich.), Eduardo Perez Guzman (Aachen, Germany), Erik Biberstein (Novi, Mich.), Judhajit Roy (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Yanan Zhao (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a first probable amount of aggregate heat generated by a vehicle battery over a time interval, for each of a plurality of possible travelable paths to possible destinations,...