ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,846, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PowerFlex Systems LLC (San Diego).
"Vehicle recognition for automatic charge management" was invented by Zachary Jordan Lee (Pasadena, Calif.) and George Lee (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques electric vehicle charging management. In one example, a method includes: detecting a connection between an electric vehicle supply equipment and an electric vehicle; receiving image data depicting an electric vehicle charging scene; determining one or more candidate vehicles in the image data; for each respective candidate vehicle...