US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Power supply device for a hybrid or electric vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,490, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Power supply device for a hybrid or electric vehicle" was invented by Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.) and Fan Xu (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter includes a plurality of pairs of power cards arranged in an array. Each pair has a proximal end and a distal end. The pairs of power cards include switches, DC inputs, DC outputs, and AC outputs. The switches are configured to convert DC power into AC power. The DC inputs are connected to the switches and extend from a first of the power cards within each pair along the distal ends. Th...