US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 18 for "High-voltage vehicle system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,182, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"High-voltage vehicle system" was invented by Tyler James-Ray Kaldobsky (Canton, Mich.) and Jonathan Andrew Butcher (Farmington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a high-voltage (HV) bus and a controller. The controller, during assembly of a control system including a plurality of HV devices to be installed in a predefined order such that one of the HV devices is installed before an other of the HV devices, and responsive to detecting presence of the other of the HV devices and absence of the one of the HV devices, disconnect...