US Patent Issued to Cummins on April 22 for "Power charging control systems and methods for electric vehicles" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,689, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Power charging control systems and methods for electric vehicles" was invented by Jennifer K. Light-Holets (Greenwood, Ind.), Julie Furber (Columbus, Ind.), Thomas A. Dollmeyer (Columbus, Ind.), Vivek A. Sujan (Columbus, Ind.) and Vinoo Thomas (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for performing an automated power charging process for one or more electric vehicles using a processor. Included in the processor is a charge controller that calculates a capacity of a power grid system by communicating with the power grid system via a netw...