ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,659, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Motiv Power Systems Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Generating vehicle wakeup signal" was invented by Justin Tomlin (San Francisco), Venkatesh Prasad Hanglur Narasimha (Foster City, Calif.) and James Michael Castelaz (Alameda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a wakeup circuit and a connector. When the connector is connected to a charging station, the wakeup circuit receives a charging control signal from the charging station. The wakeup circuit generates a wakeup pulse using a filtered version of the charging control signal (CPFS) and a reset signal. The reset signal transiti...