ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,698, issued on June 16, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Siemens AG (Munich).

"Automated electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) group commissioning system and method" was invented by Daniel Feldman (New York) and Nico Fritsch (Forchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated EVSE group commissioning system comprises a centralized system to supply a series of known valid SSID and password credential combinations to a group of EVSEs. The centralized system to assist in a group pre-connectivity configuration in that if the group of EVSEs is in a same area, they default to connect to each other ...