ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,631, issued on Aug. 19.

"Systems and methods for identifying and merging duplicate charge station locations using geohashing" was invented by Mahesh Bhannur (Canton, Mich.), Micah J. Kaiser (Clinton Township, Mich.), Nitin Singh (Dearborn, Mich.), Jagannathan Chengavalli Lakshminarayanan (Dearborn, Mich.), Divya Siva Madhuri Malineni (Dearborn, Mich.), Vishal Gogad (Dearborn, Mich.), Samuel Spraggins (Dearborn, Mich.) and Vibhor Rakesh (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is generally directed to a method and system for charge station management including collecting data related to a plurality of charge stat...