ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,256, issued on April 14, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Charging cue system for a vehicle" was invented by Omer Tsimhoni (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Frank C. Valeri (Novi, Mich.), Song He (Troy, Mich.) and Ravid Erez (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging cue system for a vehicle includes a battery including a battery controller storing battery data and a speaker system. The charging cue system also includes an electronic control unit (ECU) that is communicatively coupled with the battery controller and the speaker system. The ECU includes data processing hardware that is co...