US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Feb. 10 for "Fast charger protection under sudden stop conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,137, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Fast charger protection under sudden stop conditions" was invented by Puneeth Srikanta Murthy (Irvine, Calif.), Lixiang Wei (Irvine, Calif.) and Steven Schulz (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a PEM including control circuitry are provided herein. The operation includes detecting, using the control circuitry, a drop in output current of the PEM, detecting, using the control circuitry, an increase in output voltage of the PEM, and in response to detecting the drop in output current and detecting the increa...