ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,861, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Towed electrified vehicle battery charging rate control" was invented by William David Treharne (Ypsilanti, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes a human-machine interface to enable towed vehicle mode and specify a desired traction battery charge upon arrival at a destination. A controller is programmed to vary charging rate of the traction battery while the electrified vehicle is being towed over a user-specified distance to the destination to obtain the user-specified target charge for the traction battery upon re...