US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 7 for "Predictive freeze preparation scheduling for fuel cell propulsion system" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,326, issued on July 7, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Predictive freeze preparation scheduling for fuel cell propulsion system" was invented by Naginder Gogna (Northville, Mich.), Jason Meyer (Canton, Mich.), Rajit Johri (San Francisco), Hao Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ming Cheng (Northville, Mich.), William Frederick Sanderson Jr. (Commerce Township, Mich.) and Zeng Qiu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a vehicle with a traction battery and a fuel cell system, and a controller programmed to purge the fuel cell system by flowing air through it to remove moisture f...