ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,286, issued on March 3.

"Systems and methods for detecting vehicle charging behavior" was invented by Fling Finn Tseng (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Bhagyashri Satyabodha Katti (Novi, Mich.), Swati Rawat (Brampton, Canada), Kalyani Purushottam Sonawane (Plymouth, Mich.) and Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante (Commerce Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fleet management system including a transceiver and a processor is disclosed. The transceiver may be configured to receive a first charger location associated with a first charger, a second charger location associated with a second charger, and a current battery State of Charge (SoC) level ass...