ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,025, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Electric vehicle charging management system and method" was invented by Joseph R. Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and computer systems are disclosed herein as implemented by one or more local or remote processors, transceivers, servers, and/or sensors. The methods and systems include the one or more processors (i) determining an electric vehicle has a state of charge (SOC) below a predetermined threshold; (ii) if the SOC is determined to be below the predetermined threshold, det...