US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on March 17 for "Systems and methods for energy delivery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,476, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for energy delivery" was invented by Puneeth Kumar Srikanta Murthy (Irvine, Calif.), Ming Li (Torrance, Calif.), Lixiang Wei (Irvine, Calif.), Steven Schulz (Torrance, Calif.) and Walter Axel Franck (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy conversion is provided. An energy conversion device can include one or more power delivery interfaces. The energy conversion device can include a pre-charge circuit configured to charge a capacitor to an operating voltage. The energy conversion device can include a user accessible ...