US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 7 for "Apparatus and method for communication association, positioning, and pairing for wireless power transfer" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,573, issued on July 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for communication association, positioning, and pairing for wireless power transfer" was invented by Jin Su Jang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyun Je Sung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Bum Jin Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for an EV that receives power from an EVSE, includes receiving, by the EV, identifiable information broadcast from a plurality of EVSEs associated with at least one SECC; selecting, by the EV, one of the plurality of EVSEs as a f...