ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,430, issued on Sept. 9.

"Systems and methods for managing a vehicle's energy via a wireless network" was invented by Anthony Macaluso (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to methods and systems for provisioning mobile electric vehicles with various operational settings data transmitted over the air. A vehicle or its components may operate according to operational settings corresponding to operational settings data included in the vehicle components. A server that is remote to the vehicle may comprise operational settings data and may transmit operational settings data to the vehicle. The server may tr...