ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,586, issued on June 16, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Robust vehicle securement techniques for vehicle-to-everything power generation" was invented by Abhilash Gudapati (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A securement technique for a vehicle for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) power generation includes receiving, from a transmission shifter, a requested state for the transmission from the park state where a park pawl is engaged and one or more non-park states where the park pawl is disengaged, detecting for a key fob associated with the vehicle, detecting, via a user interface device, a lock request associate...