ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,646, issued on March 31, was assigned to RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for heating an electric charger for electric vehicle" was invented by Steven Schulz (Torrance, Calif.), Zahra Mohajerani (Los Angeles), Tyler Erikson (Torrance, Calif.) and Silva Hiti (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling a dual active bridge converter are disclosed herein. An environmental condition associated with an electric charger for an electric vehicle may be determined, where the electric charger comprises a dual active bridge converter. Based on the environmental conditio...