US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 1 for "Systems and methods for controlling home energy management systems that include dark start energy storage resources" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,077, issued on July 1, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for controlling home energy management systems that include dark start energy storage resources" was invented by Trevor van Loosbroek (Rochester, Mich.), Timothy Harris (Grosse Ile, Mich.) and Haider Mhiesan (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bidirectional energy transfer systems are provided for transferring energy between an electrified vehicle and other structures. The bidirectional energy transfer system may include a home energy management system having a dark start energy storage resource. The home energy mana...