US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 21 for "Switchable conduction mode for battery state control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,297, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Switchable conduction mode for battery state control" was invented by Mohamed Ahmed Kamel Ahmed (Birmingham, Mich.) and Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle, system and method of charge transfer at the electric vehicle. The vehicle includes a charging circuit and a processor. The charging circuit includes a first battery, a second battery and a motor winding. The processor determines a desired reference current of the motor winding, a first voltage of the first battery and a second voltage of the seco...