ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,984, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power sharing system and power sharing method" was invented by Taeho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment power sharing method includes determining a power state a plurality of vehicles and a plurality of charging devices, determining an amount of required power or an amount of surplus power of the vehicles and the charging devices based on the power state, in response to a determination that a first charging device requires additional power, searching for a first vehicle to supply the ad...