US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Dec. 2 for "Charging systems and methods for detecting and identifying a vehicle and utilizing this information in a charging application" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,565, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Charging systems and methods for detecting and identifying a vehicle and utilizing this information in a charging application" was invented by Nilesh Darade (Milpitas, Calif.) and Dipesh Khakhkhar (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle charging system and method, including: a charging station configured to selectively deliver charging power to a vehicle in an intelligent manner when connected; a perception sensor coupled to the charging station configured to obtain an image of the vehicle when present in proximity to the charging statio...