ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,736, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).
"Intelligent vehicle systems and control logic for enabling vehicle charging using smart wireless connectivity" was invented by Lakshmi V. Thanayankizil (Troy, Mich.), Sandeep U. Menon (Troy, Mich.), Nnamdi U. Uwakwe (Livingston, N.J.), Thomas Doran (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Ravid Erez (Hod-Hashron, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are vehicle charging systems and control logic provisioning smart vehicle charging using encrypted wireless connectivity, methods for making/using such systems, and vehicles interoperable with such syst...