US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 25 for "Automotive power supply, upfitter module architectures, and user defined load shedding related to same" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,794, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Automotive power supply, upfitter module architectures, and user defined load shedding related to same" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Anthony Gerald King (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kevin Thomas Hille (Plymouth, Mich.), David Celinske (Wolverine Lake, Mich.), John Anthony DeMarco (Lake Orion, Mich.) and Todd Ansbacher (Westland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Responsive to a magnitude of current associated with power from a vehicle being supplied to upfitter loads approaching a predefined threshold, a controller discontinues...