US Patent Issued to Geotab on May 13 for "Systems for identifying coupling between vehicles and charge stations" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,706, issued on May 13, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Systems for identifying coupling between vehicles and charge stations" was invented by Kip Arthur Millar Badgery (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems, methods, and devices for identifying pairings between vehicles and charge stations are described. In the absence of explicit communication or handshaking between a vehicle and a charge station, location data and charge timing data between charge stations and vehicles is compared. Probabilistic coupling between vehicles and charge stations is determined. Further, overall coupling likelihood fo...