ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,939, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Bidirectional electric vehicle charging system" was invented by Farshad Harirchi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ryan O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.) and Hossein Sartipizadeh (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more controllers may, responsive to a request from a first vehicle to receive a predefined amount of charge power by a specified time, query the first vehicle regarding whether the first vehicle will accept an amount of charge power less than the predefined amount by the specified time, and command a grid and a local controller to eac...