US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 14 for "Automotive DC/AC power inverter and power outlet with plug-detect mode" (Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,465, issued on April 14, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Automotive DC/AC power inverter and power outlet with plug-detect mode" was invented by Jesus Guadarrama (Amecameca, Mexico), Tania Cristina Vazquez (Benito Juarez, Mexico), Oswaldo Arias (Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico) and Enrique Denicia (Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC/AC power inverter of an automotive vehicle receives DC power, outputs DC power to an electrical outlet of the automotive vehicle and, responsive to receiving a communication signal from the electrical outlet indicating a plug has been electrically coupl...