Patents by Inventor Godwin Wede

Godwin Wede has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Auxiliary battery management system and method
    Patent number: 9487103
    Abstract: A battery management method includes the following steps: (a) reading, via a battery management processor, a non-volatile memory to determine if the non-volatile memory contains data indicative of a brownout in the auxiliary battery module; (b) receiving, via the battery management processor, at least one input signal from at least one brownout detector of at least one smart device having a device processor in order to determine a brownout condition in at least one smart device; (c) determining, via the battery management processor, that a triggering event has occurred if the non-volatile memory contains data indicative of the brownout in the auxiliary battery module or the at least one smart device exhibits a brownout condition; and (d) commanding, via the battery management processor, the main battery module to electrically charge the auxiliary battery module of the hybrid vehicle if the triggering event has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Cody D. Berman, Vivekananda Shripathy, Thomas John Timpf, Jr., Godwin Wede
  • AUXILIARY BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20160059726
    Abstract: A battery management method includes the following steps: (a) reading, via a battery management processor, a non-volatile memory to determine if the non-volatile memory contains data indicative of a brownout in the auxiliary battery module; (b) receiving, via the battery management processor, at least one input signal from at least one brownout detector of at least one smart device having a device processor in order to determine a brownout condition in at least one smart device; (c) determining, via the battery management processor, that a triggering event has occurred if the non-volatile memory contains data indicative of the brownout in the auxiliary battery module or the at least one smart device exhibits a brownout condition; and (d) commanding, via the battery management processor, the main battery module to electrically charge the auxiliary battery module of the hybrid vehicle if the triggering event has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Cody D. Berman, Vivekananda Shripathy, Thomas John Timpf, JR., Godwin Wede