ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,200, issued on May 12, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Charge control" was invented by Alan Liu (London), Fatma Kevser Akcay (London), Andrii Sliusar (London), Paolo Caminiti (London), Andrea Harpprecht (London), Joe Downard (London), Deepti Yenireddy (San Jose, Calif.) and Ethan Wood (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle (EV) charge management system is configured to monitor, manage, and optimize EV charging processes. The system can continuously monitor charge-related data from various sources, including the EVs themselves, charging infrastructure providers, schedule data, and/or other relevant sy...