ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,449, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Charging station system in an electric vehicle management system" was invented by Roberto Mario Aimi (San Francisco) and Michael Nathaniel Rosenblatt (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments for ensuring that an electric vehicle has initiated stopping of a charging process between a charging station and an electric vehicle (EV) before a coupler of the charging station and the EV are mechanical decoupled. The charging station includes a sensor assembly includes any suitable sensor that generates a sensor signal indicative of...