US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "Control and management of upfitter and vehicle loads" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,336, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Control and management of upfitter and vehicle loads" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Jeffrey Robert Seaman (Petersburg, Mich.), David Celinske (Wolverine Lake, Mich.), Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Christopher Ballard (Redford, Mich.) and Todd Ansbacher (Westland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While a state of charge of a supplemental battery, that provides power to an electrical bus via a first DC/DC converter, is greater than a predefined threshold and responsive to a magnitude of current associated wi...