US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 20 for "Traction battery controller using active charge control to detect battery capacity" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,935, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery controller using active charge control to detect battery capacity" was invented by Yonghua Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Richard Dyche Anderson (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a capacity of a battery, such as a traction battery of an electrified vehicle, includes varying a charge current provided to the battery and measuring a terminal voltage of the battery as the charge current is being varied. An estimator, that utilizes voltage feedback based on a model of the battery to provide state and pa...