ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,980, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Temperature based charging control" was invented by Paulo Lucena Kreppel Paes (Irvine, Calif.), Wendy Wai-Lan Siu (Torrance, Calif.), Do Hyun Yoon (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Tyler Jennings Bennett (Long Beach, Calif.), Ajay Panekkad (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Jacob Oberlin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a data processing system including one or more memory devices coupled with one or more processors. The data processing system can receive measurements of a temperature of a connector of a vehicle, the connector to ch...