ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,246, issued on May 20, was assigned to ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Systems and method for charging vehicles" was invented by Raj Vaswani (Portola Valley, Calif.), George Flammer (Cupertino, Calif.), James Pace (San Francisco), Jay Ramasastry (Reno, Nev.), Donald L. Reeves III (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Brian Matsuo (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for charging vehicles includes at least one mobile device and a utility network management center ("NMC"). The at least one mobile device is configured as an electronic utility device and includes a network interface card ("N...