US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia, Myongji University Industry and Academia Cooperation Foundation on May 26 for "Bootstrap method of electric vehicle charging station" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,968, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Myongji University Industry and Academia Cooperation Foundation (Yongin, South Korea).

"Bootstrap method of electric vehicle charging station" was invented by Min Ho Shin (Yongin, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a bootstrap method for registering a charging station (CS), which was in an offline state, to an electric vehicle charging station management system (CSMS) and operating same. The bootstrap method comprises the steps of: storing at least partial bootstrap information in a CS so as to configur...