US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Method and apparatus for managing accessory charging stations on a vehicle" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,495, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for managing accessory charging stations on a vehicle" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Pietro Buttolo (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), William Wurz (San Francisco) and Eric Scott Levine (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to manage charging priority for at least one accessory includes the steps of: providing one or more charging stations for the at least one accessory, monitoring vehicle power status, ...