ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,241, issued on July 14, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method to establish communication to discharge energy" was invented by Konstantinos Chatziioannou (Ojersjo, Sweden), Egoi Sanchez Basualdo (Gothenburg, Sweden), Xingyun Yang (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Ashok Chaitanya Koppisetty (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method to discharge energy is enabled. For example, a vehicle can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components comprise a ...