ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,721, issued on May 13, was assigned to SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and systems to trickle charge electric vehicle's supercapacitors using solar energy" was invented by John Cronin (Wilmington, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for energy management. A system, such as a vehicle, includes a solar cell that generates energy in response to receiving light. The system includes an energy controller, which includes a processor and memory, that predicts an optimal time period for charging an energy storage unit based on information tracking discharging of the ene...