ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,582, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Preconditioner system for a battery of a vehicle and method" was invented by Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preconditioner system for a battery for a vehicle, the preconditioner system including detecting a state of charge of the battery. The system including determining the state of charge is below a first threshold. The system including prompting a user to connect the battery to a charger and detecting a temperature of the battery. The system including determining the temperature of the battery is outside a...