US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 22 for "System and method for charging electric vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,553, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for charging electric vehicles" was invented by Smruti Panigrahi (Novi, Mich.), Yifan Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Raj Sohmshetty (Canton, Mich.), Kurt Michael Lundeen (Novi, Mich.), Sanghyun Hong (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Sam Hoff (Hazel Park, Mich.), Brian McIntyre (Dexter, Mich.) and Hussein Chami (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for charging a plurality of electric vehicles includes a rail structure, a mobile base unit, at least one battery and a controller. The mobile base unit is supported by the rail struc...