US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on July 28 for "Bidirectional vehicle to load charging communication" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,781, issued on July 28, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Bidirectional vehicle to load charging communication" was invented by Wendy Siu (Torrance, Calif.), Tyler Jennings Bennett (Long Beach, Calif.), Kush Upreti (Irvine, Calif.) and Sarah Hipel (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present solution can execute a handshake process to establish a bidirectional session utilizing communications that can be implemented on EVs and chargers from various manufacturers. The present solution relates to a charger that can execute a handshake process communication between the charger and an electric vehicle to es...