ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,679, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Optimal control strategy for a distributed low voltage system with bidirectional direct current converters" was invented by Jun-mo Kang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Muhammad Hussain Alvi (Troy, Mich.), Mohamed Ahmed Kamel Ahmed (Birmingham, Mich.) and Rashmi Prasad (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes DC/DC converters configured to receive electrical currents from high voltage battery modules and output regulating electrical currents to a low voltage battery. The vehicle system includes a control system coupled to the DC/DC...