US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Dec. 30 for "Battery temperature regulating method and control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,951, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery temperature regulating method and control device" was invented by Toru Ogaki (Tokyo) and Shuhei Kouchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery temperature regulating method includes: acquiring outside temperature information representing a future outside temperature transition around the vehicle, searching for an intersection time, which is a time when the outside temperature becomes a threshold temperature, predicting, based on the outside temperature information, a future temperature transition of the battery when it is assumed that predetermined...