US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 7 for "Vehicle battery cell balancing" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,581, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle battery cell balancing" was invented by Hesam Zomorodi Moghadam (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Xu Wang (Northville, Mich.), Rui Wang (Irvine, Calif.) and Andrea Cordoba Arenas (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller initiates discharging of at least some cells of a traction battery based on data indicative of cell state of charge and cell capacity such that, upon completion of the discharging, states of charge of at least some of the cells are different, and after charging the cells with a same current for a same period of time, ...