US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 21 for "Electrified vehicle with active discharge of high-voltage bus" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,310, issued on July 21, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle with active discharge of high-voltage bus" was invented by Hongjie Wu (Canton, Mich.) and Yuqing Tang (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes an active discharge system having a plurality of resistors connected in parallel, a switch connected in series with the plurality of resistors with the switch and the plurality of resistors connected across positive and negative legs of a high-voltage DC bus, and a controller coupled to the switch and programmed to close the switch in response to...