US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 15 for "Method and system for using idle computing power of an electric vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,391, issued on July 15, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system for using idle computing power of an electric vehicle" was invented by Aravind Gangumalla (Novi, Mich.), Anil K. Sachdev (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Anil Bika (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Nathan Thompson (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Ramesh Sethu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using idle computing power of an electric vehicle includes receiving computing tasks while the electric vehicle is electrically connected to a charging infrastructure, accepting to perform the computing tasks while the electric vehicle ...