US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Oct. 21 for "Dispatch-based charging for electric vehicle fleet" (Arizona, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,850, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Dispatch-based charging for electric vehicle fleet" was invented by Kenneth Ramon Ferguson (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Chase Kaufman (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Adam Mandel-Senft (Phoenix), Jeffrey Brandon (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Brett Lee Rogers (New Hudson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle (EV) is charged according to a selected charging rate. An available dispatch time is determined based on a current charge level of a battery of the EV, a first charging rate, and a target charge level. An anticipated dispatch time is determined based on pre...