US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 18 for "Heating and cooling for a parallel connected mixed chemistry battery pack" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,189, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Heating and cooling for a parallel connected mixed chemistry battery pack" was invented by Shuonan Xu (Troy, Mich.), Jun-mo Kang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Madhusudan Raghavan (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a vehicle includes drawing operational power from a first set of battery cells and providing heating/cooling to the first set of battery cells and not to a second set of battery cells to maintain the first set of battery cells within an operational temperature window in a first mode of operation. The m...