US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Dec. 23 for "Electric vehicle and charging station communications" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,001, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Electric vehicle and charging station communications" was invented by Mohamed A. Layouni (Fraser, Mich.), Roddi Lynn MacInnes (Bowmanville, Canada), Pedro Eduardo Villanueva Pena (Toronto) and Kenneth C. Weber (Ajax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle charging station includes a connector adapted to connect a vehicle to the charging station, the charging station adapted to exchange information related to identification and charging requirements and capabilities, send a challenge to the vehicle, receive a response to the challenge from...