US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Oct. 20 for "Portable power supply with bidirectional charging and passthrough" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,158, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Portable power supply with bidirectional charging and passthrough" was invented by David Brochtrup (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) and Logan Manderle (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable power supply including an alternating current ("AC") power input interface, an AC power output interface, a battery core, a charger electrically connected to the AC power input interface, an inverter configured to output AC power to the AC power output interface, and a controller configured to, when the charger is active and AC power is requested at the...