US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 7 for "Bidirectional energy transfer system and method utilizing a cordset" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,852, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Bidirectional energy transfer system and method utilizing a cordset" was invented by Richard Mo (Dearborn, Mich.), Timothy Harris (Grosse Ile, Mich.), Ryan J. O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Katherine Howard-Cone (Canton, Mich.) and Peter Phung (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional energy transfer system includes a cordset of a bidirectional energy transfer system that transfers power from a device to at least one battery array within a traction battery of an electrified vehicle whe...