ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,261, issued on Aug. 11.

"Systems and methods to diagnose charging connection interfaces" was invented by Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alexandra Taylor (Harbor Springs, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a plurality of vehicle charger pins that may be configured to connect with a charging connector is disclosed. The vehicle may further include a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver may be configured to receive real-time information associated with each vehicle charger pin when the vehicle may be charged using the charging connector. The processor may be conf...