ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,782, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOIGES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Charging authentication method and apparatus" was invented by Rehana Yasmin (Singapore), Yanjiang Yang (Singapore), Songlie Zhan (Dongguan, China) and Zhuo Wei (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging authentication method is performed by an electric vehicle and comprises establishing a first connection between the electric vehicle and a charging spot using a controller area network (CAN) bus, establishing a second connection between the electric vehicle and a charging management system using a mobile communication...