US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 17 for "Multi-port multi-battery pack charging for vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,741, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Multi-port multi-battery pack charging for vehicles" was invented by Lei Hao (Troy, Mich.), Yue-Yun Wang (Troy, Mich.), Norman K. Bucknor (Troy, Mich.), Venkata Prasad Atluri (Novi, Mich.), Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.) and Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method that includes receiving, at a vehicle comprising a first battery pack and a second battery pack, at least one of a first electric charge from a first charging station via a first charging port or a second electric ...