US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Sept. 23 for "Selective early charge termination" (Georgia, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,665, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Selective early charge termination" was invented by Gregory August Theodosakis (Martinez, Ga.), Russell William King (Evans, Ga.) and Jonathan Daniel Bowen (North Augusta, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are directed to charging a battery of a utility vehicle. Such techniques involve receiving a geolocation signal which identifies a current location of the utility vehicle. Such techniques further involve generating a geolocation assessment result indicating whether the utility vehicle is currently within an early charge termination ...