ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,231, issued on March 17.

"System and method for enabling EV charging session with charger device having discontinuous internet connectivity" was invented by Jonathan Ian Gelsey (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes (i) authenticating a first user at an EV charger application on the first user device, where the application stores authentication data received via the internet, (ii) initiating a first charging session at a charger device with session information data packet including assigning a session identifier and transmitting a user identifier from the first user device via wi...