ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,825, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Dynamic route generation and charger discovery" was invented by Evelyn Anne Fisher (Bozeman, Mont.), Colin William Crenshaw (Portola Valley, Calif.), Jason Bertrand Rapp (Seabrook, Texas) and Bo Gunnar Olof Lincoln (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic route generation and charger discovery is provided. A system identifies a drive route for a vehicle. The drive route includes a first charger at a first location along the drive route configured to charge a battery of the vehicle. The system receives an indication of an amount of power output...