ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,330, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Flexible vehicle charging" was invented by Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.) and Madhusudan Raghavan (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for charging an electrified vehicle through a charge port selectively configures a plurality of battery packs including battery packs having a voltage N with a plurality of controllable switches into one of several charging configurations which may include presenting the charge port with voltage N, 2N or 3N."
The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2022, under Application No. 1...