US Patent Issued to Geotab on March 17 for "Methods for controlling power distribution to vehicles" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,407, issued on March 17, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Methods for controlling power distribution to vehicles" was invented by Eric Christopher Mallia (Waterloo, Canada), Christopher Joseph Mendes (Kitchener, Canada), Matthew Stevens (Baden, Canada), Young Seok Shin (Kitchener, Canada) and Michael Douglas McLean (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for controlling charging of vehicles, to avoid charging during charge-adverse time periods or during charge restriction events. This can advantageously reduce cost to vehicles owners, and or provide acce...