ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,290, issued on July 21, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Behavioral pattern recognition to initiate a charging process" was invented by Kerstin Baskakow (Sappenfeld, Germany) and Matthias Schneider (Schernfeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for initiating a charging process of an electrically drivable vehicle parked at a charging space by an automated charging system. The method includes determining a charging intention of a user in an automated manner based on performing behavioral pattern recognition of a behavioral pattern of the user including at least one movement of the user, authenticating the ...