US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Power distribution management for a vehicle" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,365, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Power distribution management for a vehicle" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Jessica Louise Smith (Brighton, Mich.), Roxanne Anthonette Pinheiro (Grosse Ile, Mich.), David Celinske (Wolverine Lake, Mich.), Rudi Todd Ansbacher (Westland, Mich.) and Justin Richard Longbourne (Stock, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management system for a vehicle includes a power source, switching circuitry, and a first converter electrically interposing the power source and the switching circuitry. The first converter has a ...