US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 25 for "Battery control systems and methods based on derated state of vehicle" (Chinese, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,335, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Battery control systems and methods based on derated state of vehicle" was invented by Dave G. Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Aaron B. Bloom (Royal Oak, Mich.), Wing-Fai Ha (Markham, Canada), Dewen Kong (Shanghai) and Jingyuan Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system for a vehicle includes: a first positive terminal, a second positive terminal, and a negative terminal; switches; at least two battery modules each including at least three strings of battery cells that are configured to, at different times be: connected in serie...