US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Dec. 23 for "Control and monitoring of vehicle battery based on coulombic efficiency ratio" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,008, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Control and monitoring of vehicle battery based on coulombic efficiency ratio" was invented by Yongjie Zhu (Troy, Mich.), Meng Jiang (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Andrew C. Baughman (Northville, Mich.), Xueyu Zhang (Northville, Mich.), Chunhao J. Lee (Troy, Mich.) and Yue-Yun Wang (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a battery module in a vehicle includes selecting an upper cut-off voltage and a lower cut-off voltage for the battery module. The method includes charging the battery cell from an original state to a first b...