ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,710, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ample Inc. (San Francisco).
"Battery-exchange service station" was invented by Juan Spiniak Irarrazaval (San Francisco) and Kenji Bowers (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a battery-exchange service station includes receiving data corresponding to a vehicle to be serviced; automatically adjusting a size of a service platform according to the vehicle, the service platform disposed over a service cavity configured to receive a service robot; automatically presenting one or more visual indicators to guide the vehicle onto the service platform such that the vehicle's...