US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Vehicle charging system and method, with power converters directly coupled to liquid cooled cold plate" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,624, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle charging system and method, with power converters directly coupled to liquid cooled cold plate" was invented by John Penney (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling a temperature of a vehicle power input port that is configured to receive power for a traction battery. In one example, a liquid cooled cold plate is configured to extract heat from the vehicle power input port so that there may be a reduced possibility of limiting electric power flow to the vehicle during charging of a ...