US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 12 for "User device vehicle charger strategy" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,675, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"User device vehicle charger strategy" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Jessica Louise Smith (Brighton, Mich.), Todd Ansbacher (Westland, Mich.), David Celinske (Wolverine Lake, Mich.), Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Leann Kridner (New Boston, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depletion amount of energy required to charge a user device connected to a device port of a vehicle is estimated based on a state of charge (SoC) of a device battery of the connected user device. Responsive to an expected SoC of a LV ba...