US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 1 for "Outlet power architecture for vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,496, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Outlet power architecture for vehicle" was invented by Dongxu Li (Troy, Mich.), Lei Hao (Shelby Township, Mich.), Yilun Luo (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Minh-Khai Nguyen (Troy, Mich.) and Samantha Gunter Miller (Berkley, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outlet power architecture for a vehicle includes a power source and a direct current to alternating current (DC-AC) converter coupled to the power source. The DC-AC converter includes a plurality of switches and a first capacitor and a second capacitor operably coupled to the plurality of switches."...