US Patent Issued to Atieva on March 3 for "Vehicle low-voltage power distribution without fuses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,734, issued on March 3, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Vehicle low-voltage power distribution without fuses" was invented by Jean-Philippe Gauthier (Oakland, Calif.) and Thomas Joel Huber (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle comprises: a low-voltage battery to provide low-voltage power; devices configured to operate using the low-voltage power, each of the devices coupled to the low-voltage battery by a corresponding conductor, wherein the devices comprise all consumers of the low-voltage power in the vehicle; switches to selectively interrupt the low-voltage power between the low-voltage battery an...