US Patent Issued on June 9 for "Mobile device charging from a vehicle based on communal association" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,913, issued on June 9.

"Mobile device charging from a vehicle based on communal association" was invented by Aaron M. DeLong (Toledo, Ohio), John R. Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.) and Mahmoud Y. Ghannam (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle provides wireless charging to a mobile wireless device outside of the vehicle. After a request by a person outside the vehicle, a wireless power transmitter initiates remote charging of the mobile wireless device. A vehicle controller is configured to respond to the charging request by (A) attempting one or more times to communicate with ...