US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 23 for "Method and system for low charge detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,954, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and system for low charge detection" was invented by Rohan Shrivastava (Livonia, Mich.), James Rollinson (Superior Township, Mich.), Jordan Mazaira (Taylor, Mich.) and Shahid Bashir (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for assessing operation of a cooling system of an electric vehicle are described. In one example, a super heating temperature at an inlet of a compressor may be generated solely via a temperature sensor and a pressure sensor. The super heating temperature may be compared against a threshold super...