US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on March 31 for "Method for operating a battery charging assistance system external to a motor vehicle, as well as a battery charging assistance system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,672, issued on March 31, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating a battery charging assistance system external to a motor vehicle, as well as a battery charging assistance system" was invented by Bahaaeldeen Hafez (Canton, Mich.), Prajakta Pimple (Southfield, Mich.), Venkata Sai Durga Makkapati (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Mohamad Abdul-Hak (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a battery charging assistance system external to a motor vehicle involves the motor vehicle transmitting a charging request and an actual position of the motor vehicle to the batter...