ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,380, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Evercharge Inc. (San Francisco).

"Electric vehicle charge scheduling and management using fleet-based telemetry" was invented by Jason Appelbaum (Oakland, Calif.) and John Loren Passmore (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote computer server communicates with a fleet of electric vehicles, and gathers telemetry data from the fleet of electric vehicles. An intelligent EVSE unit and/or a DC fast charging unit communicates with the remote server, and charges an electric vehicle based at least in part on the telemetry data from the fleet of electric vehicles. The remote computer s...