US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 16 for "Vehicle upfitter power connection management strategies" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,472, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle upfitter power connection management strategies" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Brian Grifka (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Stuart Easson (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Todd Ansbacher (Westland, Mich.), David Celinske (Wolverine Lake, Mich.) and Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more controllers may, after activation of a vehicle, sequentially pulse field effect transistors of a power distribution module of the vehicle that are connected to inputs of an upfitter power module, and pr...