US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on March 17 for "Electrified vehicle control using traction battery array-based multi-cell state estimation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,747, issued on March 17, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle control using traction battery array-based multi-cell state estimation" was invented by Marcelo Araujo Xavier (Belleville, Mich.) and Justin T. Hughes (Allen Park, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a traction battery and a controller. The traction battery includes first and second arrays of battery cells. The controller is programmed to implement first and second filters, such as first and second bar-delta filters, configured to respectively generate output indicative of a state-of-charge (SOC) of the fi...