US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 3 for "Battery thermal management via heat from water cooled condenser" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,176, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Battery thermal management via heat from water cooled condenser" was invented by Rohan Shrivastava (Livonia, Mich.), Jordan Mazaira (Taylor, Mich.), James C. Rollinson (Superior Township, Mich.) and Scott Vehige (Woodhaven, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller, while operating an evaporator to remove heat from air in a cabin and during absence of requests to heat the cabin and a traction battery, flows coolant from a water cooled condenser to a circuit arranged to exchange heat with the traction battery until a temperature of the tract...