US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on June 16 for "Traction battery controller employing battery model that efficiently represents complex battery diffusion dynamics" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,401, issued on June 16, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery controller employing battery model that efficiently represents complex battery diffusion dynamics" was invented by Xiaohong Nina Duan (Canton, Mich.), Yonghua Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hao Wu (Northville, Mich.) and Donnell Matthew Washington II (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, such an electrified vehicle, includes a battery, such as a traction battery. The system further includes a controller configured to control the battery based on (i) a value of a first parameter of a model of the battery taken from e...