US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 21 for "Fuel cell-based vehicle-to-vehicle charging" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,037, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Fuel cell-based vehicle-to-vehicle charging" was invented by Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging system of a vehicle includes a conversion device configured to transfer electrical energy from a fuel cell system to an electric motor of the vehicle via a propulsion bus, a switching assembly configured to selectively connect the conversion device to a charge port of the vehicle, and a controller configured to operate the switching assembly to transition the charging system to a charging mode. The controller is...