US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Dec. 9 for "Electric vehicle charging system and connector having an RFID reader and method for RF validation for charging electric vehicle" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,777, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Electric vehicle charging system and connector having an RFID reader and method for RF validation for charging electric vehicle" was invented by Saivaraprasad Murahari (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Barton Kirk Ideker (Fayetteville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector for use in charging an electric vehicle (EV). The connector includes a housing, an electrical receptacle coupled to the housing and structured to be inserted into and electrically couple with a charging port of the electric vehicle, and a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader disp...