US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for preparing electrified vehicles to transfer energy" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,138, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for preparing electrified vehicles to transfer energy" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Ryan O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Alexander Avila (Birmingham, Mich.), Victoria Powers (Chicago) and Timothy Harris (Grosse Ile, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for preparing electrified vehicles to transfer energy to other structures. Weather related data and/or grid related data may be leveraged for predicting the likelihood of power outage conditions of a grid power source. ...