US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 8 for "Systems and methods for providing in-flight charging of electrified vehicles" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,365, issued on April 8, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for providing in-flight charging of electrified vehicles" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), James Baumbick (Northville, Mich.), Ryan J. O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Katherine Howard-Cone (Canton, Mich.), Paul Kenneth Dellock (Northville, Mich.), Peter Phung (Windsor, Canada) and Annette Lynn Huebner (Highland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to systems and methods for coordinating and executing in-flight energy transfer events between vehicles. Energy may be transferred from...