US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry on Aug. 11 for "Upgrading an existing standard electric vehicle (EV) charger from grid to vehicle (V1G) to V1G plus vehicle to grid (V2G) operation" (New York, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,040, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Upgrading an existing standard electric vehicle (EV) charger from grid to vehicle (V1G) to V1G plus vehicle to grid (V2G) operation" was invented by Daniel Feldman (New York) and John R. DeBoer III (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method to upgrade an existing standard Electric Vehicle (EV) charger from Grid to EV (V1G) to Vehicle to Grid (V2G) in order to send power from a grid to an EV as well as from the EV to the grid. The method comprises loading the existing standard EV charger initially developed to support only V1G with a V2...