US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on March 17 for "Power transmission between electric vehicle battery and alternating-current power system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,732, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Power transmission between electric vehicle battery and alternating-current power system" was invented by Ming Li (Torrance, Calif.), Lixiang Wei (Irvine, Calif.), Steven Schulz (Torrance, Calif.) and Puneeth Kumar Srikanta Murthy (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this technical solution can a first direct-current (DC) circuit to couple with a DC battery of an electric vehicle, a capacitor of the first DC circuit configured to charge to a capacitance that satisfies a threshold of activation of a second DC circuit, and the first...