US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for managing a robotic charging system of a manufacturing environment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,177, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for managing a robotic charging system of a manufacturing environment" was invented by Jon Zimmerman (Ferndale, Mich.), Hussein Chami (Dearborn, Mich.), Brian McIntyre (Dexter, Mich.), Francis Maslar (Grosse Ile, Mich.), Yifan Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Raj Sohmshetty (Canton, Mich.) and Smruti Panigrahi (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining vehicle data associated with the plurality of vehicles, obtaining charging station data associated with the plurality of charging stations, and obtaining ro...