ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,798, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"State of charge control system for vehicle battery modules" was invented by Jun-mo Kang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Garrett Michael Seeman (Clawson, Mich.), Patrick E. Frost (Berkley, Mich.), Mohamed Kamel (Birmingham, Mich.), Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.) and Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example vehicle battery control system includes an electric motor, a vehicle battery pack configured to supply power to the electric motor, the vehicle battery pack including multiple battery modules each including multiple recha...