ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,844, issued on Sept. 29.

"Systems and methods for transferring energy from a vehicle" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Vyas Darshan Shenoy (Canton, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Mark J. Ferrel (Brighton, Mich.), Ryan O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.) and Todd Ansbacher (Westland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer switch for transferring power to a building is disclosed. The transfer switch may include a detection unit configured to monitor a utility power supply from a power grid. The transfer switch may further include a processor configured to determine that a power supply communi...