US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 26 for "Vehicle with rental mode and power controls" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,972, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle with rental mode and power controls" was invented by Shannon Wrobel (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alexiluis Dominguez-Morales (Dearborn, Mich.), Cleyton Cavallaro (Clawson, Mich.) and Wendy Lynn MacLennan (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller, responsive to receiving a message from a device remote from a vehicle defining a power limit during a rental mode of operation for a power outlet, prevents power output by the power outlet from exceeding the power limit during the rental mode of operation and responsive to the power out...