ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,649, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Control of vehicle and home energy storage systems" was invented by Lan Yu (Canton, Mich.) and Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes responsive to indication that a predicted electricity price will exceed a predefined threshold during a timeframe, charging one or more power storage devices to a target amount, that is based on a predicted power demand of the building during the timeframe, before the timeframe begins, and discharging the one or more power storage devices to supply power to the building durin...