US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 27 for "System and method for controlling a vehicle electric machine for temperature and power control" (Michigan, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,909, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for controlling a vehicle electric machine for temperature and power control" was invented by Matthew Penne (Pierce, Neb.), Seth Loveall (Dearborn, Mich.), Papiya Bagchi (Northville, Mich.) and Yang Xu (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a battery pack, an electric machine, and a control system including one or more controllers. The control system is configured to discharge power using the electric machine to increase operation loss of the electric machine based on a setting obtained from a drive inp...