US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 22 for "Traction battery controller employing structural adaptive learning of battery model parameters" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,826, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery controller employing structural adaptive learning of battery model parameters" was invented by Xiaohong Nina Duan (Canton, Mich.), Yonghua Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Qi Jiao (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery controller of an electrified vehicle controls the traction battery based in part on a value of a current-independent parameter, decomposed from a current-dependent parameter of a model of the traction battery, that is estimated based on voltage and current measurements of the traction batter...