US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Electric vehicle energy management system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,538, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric vehicle energy management system" was invented by Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Erik J. Christen (Royal Oak, Mich.), Matthew Joseph (St. Clair Shores, Mich.) and Shehan Haputhanthri (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller selectively generates output for display indicative of a recommendation against use of a power outlet in a vehicle with devices external to the vehicle having a power rating greater than a predefined power rating threshold based on a difference between a current state of charge of a bat...