ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,063, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for vehicle-to-load charging session initializing, communicating, and charging" was invented by Tyler J. Bennett (Long Beach, Calif.) and Jason R. Seely (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative non-transitory computer-readable media for controllers for vehicle-to-load (V2X) charging devices, controllers for V2X charging devices, and V2X charging devices. In an illustrative embodiment, non-transitory computer-readable media store therein computer-executable instructions that, when ex...