ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,840, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"System for calculating a maximum power limit for a battery pack" was invented by Han Zhang (Shelby Township, Mich.), Yong Miao (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Erin Efimoff (Oak Park, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for calculating the maximum power limit of a battery pack for an electric vehicle includes one or more controllers in electronic communication with the battery pack. A plurality of battery open circuit voltage look-up tables and a plurality of direct current internal resistance (DCIR) look-up tables are stored in memory of the one ...