US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for integrated bi-directional charging" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,893, issued on July 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and apparatus for integrated bi-directional charging" was invented by Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.), Rashmi Prasad (Troy, Mich.), Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.), Yilun Luo (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Khorshed Mohammed Alam (Canton, Mich.) and Minh-Khai Nguyen (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle includes a drive system that performs a method of transferring power between a vehicle and an external location. The drive system includes a battery, a rectifier, and a processor. The rectifier is one of a two-level recti...