US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 20 for "Electrified vehicle with biased control of heating sources" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,908, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle with biased control of heating sources" was invented by Rohan Shrivastava (Livonia, Mich.), Jordan Mazaira (Taylor, Mich.), Westin Pusey (Brownstown, Mich.) and Scott Vehige (Woodhaven, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes an electric machine powered by a battery to provide torque to vehicle wheels, a heater powered by the battery, a cooling circuit that circulates cooling fluid through the electric machine, the battery, the heater, and a heat exchanger, a heat pump in fluid communication with t...