US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 14 for "AC coupled controller for power flow control via electric vehicle during islanding from grid" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,404, issued on July 14, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"AC coupled controller for power flow control via electric vehicle during islanding from grid" was invented by Timothy Harris (Grosse Ile, Mich.) and Haider Mhiesan (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller, responsive to a command from a remote controller, alters a frequency at which a vehicle inverter applies an AC potential to a power network such that an AC power output to the power network by a remote distributed energy resource, such as a solar power system, synchronized with the vehicle inverter decreases."

The pat...