ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,185, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method of tracking multiple electric vehicle supply equipment in a shipment" was invented by Ryan O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Peter J. Nikolajevs (Dearborn, Mich.) and Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) tracking device includes a communication device attached to a first EVSE configured to receive and transmit data. The EVSE tracking device also includes a computing device configured to store a shipment roaster including EVSE data that uniquely identifies t...