US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 22 for "Systems and methods for precooling a building using a vehicle" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,839, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for precooling a building using a vehicle" was invented by Ryan O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Peter Phung (Windsor, Canada) and Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle configured to transfer energy to a building is disclosed. The vehicle may include a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver may receive temperature information and demand information associated with a power grid. The processor may determine that a first predefined condition may ...