ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,293, issued on July 21, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Siemens AG (Munich).

"Electric vehicle (EV) driver application (APP) to identify a driver charging profile for automatic selection in a charging session" was invented by Daniel Feldman (New York) and Konstantin Scholz (Schwaig bei Nurnberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an EV with an infotainment unit, a driver App, an electric mobility service provider (eMSP) cloud and a user charging profile database to identify a Bluetooth(R) and time/location-based driver charging profile for its automatic selection in a charging sessio...