US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 20 for "Smart energy center rationality and redundancy" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,377, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Smart energy center rationality and redundancy" was invented by James Morrison (Sebringville, Canada), Lyall Kenneth Winger (Waterloo, Canada), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.) and Infane Lowe (Grand Blanc, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle smart energy center includes an array of electronic fuses coupling a DC power bus to a plurality of loads and primary and supplemental electrical power sources. Electronic fuses self-diagnose health and report current, voltage and temperature data which is used by a smart energy center control mo...