ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,853, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Energy facility arranged to prioritize favorable energy management actions to happen earlier and non-favorable energy management actions to happen later" 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: "An energy facility, such as a charge station operable for charging electrified vehicles, includes a controller. The controller selects from a group of energy management solutions which achieve favorable energy management activities with a same price of operation of the energy facility, an ene...