US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on June 17 for "Centrally dispatched power supply using autonomous electric vehicle fleet" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,657, issued on June 17, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Centrally dispatched power supply using autonomous electric vehicle fleet" was invented by Tracy Cheung (San Francisco), Adam Mandel-Senft (Phoenix), Daniel Henry Curzon (San Francisco) and Michael Frank Schmidt (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fleet management system dispatches autonomous electric vehicles (AEVs) as on-demand power sources. The fleet management system receives a request for a power source including a location and data describing the amount of power requested. The fleet management system selects an AEV of the fleet to ...