ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,326, issued on April 15, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle systems and methods for increasing energy resource availability" was invented by Aaron B Bloom (Royal Oak, Mich.), Dave Gerard Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Wing-Fai Ha (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles and related systems and methods are provided for managing an electrical system. One method involves identifying a current condition associated with an energy source coupled to an electrical grid, identifying a current operating state associated with the vehicle electrical system, determining an adjusted control t...