Patent ID: 11949277
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 6:
7. A vehicle for controlling charging of connected devices, comprising:
a human machine interface (HMI) of the vehicle;
a wireless transceiver of the vehicle;
a power connector of the vehicle; and
a controller of the vehicle, programmed to:
detect, using the wireless transceiver, presence of a target connected device,
receive, via a user interface presented to the HMI, settings indicative of how to charge the target connected device via the power connector,
receive, using the wireless transceiver, data packets from the target connected device indicative of a current state of charge of the target connected device,

charge the target connected device from the power connector in accordance with the settings and the current state of charge, and
display, in the HMI, a listing of a plurality of connected devices, the plurality of connected devices including the target connected device, where, for each of the plurality of connected devices the HMI displays a name of the respective connected device, and a configurable current flow that the respective connected device receives when being charged.