US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Electric vehicle energy management system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,572, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric vehicle energy management system" was invented by Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Anthony Maraldo (Southgate, Mich.), Roman Koch (Aachen, Germany) and Solomon Lin (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server includes an interface configured to communicate with a vehicle and a charger, and a processor configured to responsive to receiving, from the vehicle, vehicle data indicative of an energy transfer amount from the vehicle to one or more receiving entities above a transfer thr...