ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,912, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Systems and methods for detecting vehicle position during dynamic wireless charging" was invented by Arif I. Sarwat (Miami), Milad Behnamfar (Miami) and Mohd Tariq (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting vehicle position during electric vehicle charging using machine learning, as well as a control scheme for activating charging coils when the vehicle crosses them. The machine learning can have as inputs the primary current, the vehicle ground clearances, and the speed of the vehicle. As...