US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on June 9 for "Electric vehicle multimodal trip planner" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,380, issued on June 9, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Electric vehicle multimodal trip planner" was invented by Jason Meyer Quint (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jeff Mitsuo Ota (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Kyle Robert Underhill (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for allocating charge from an electric vehicle to a connected accessory device. The electric vehicle includes a charge port coupled to a vehicle battery and configured to connect to an accessory device. When the accessory device is connected to the charge port, charge is allocated from the vehicle battery to the accessory ...