US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 27 for "Security mode for vehicle onboard power systems" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,770, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Security mode for vehicle onboard power systems" was invented by Brendan Jenkins (Canton, Mich.), Daniel Sullivan (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Tyler James-Ray Kaldobsky (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle onboard power (VOP) system is for a vehicle. The VOP system includes a power source, an outlet electrically connected to the power source, a processor electrically connected to the power source, and a memory. The memory has instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including d...