ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,879, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Balancing electrical vehicle power distribution across a charging lane" was invented by Darren Hau (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Lin-Zhuang Khoo (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging facility provides a charging lane for charging electric vehicles (EVs). A charging system for charging the EVs in the lane includes a power management system and a set of chargers, each charger at a respective charging position along the charging lane. A load manager receives information about the EVs' charge levels and positions in the lane, and determines...