US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on Aug. 5 for "On-demand electric charge service" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,744, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"On-demand electric charge service" was invented by Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an on-demand electric charge service, a plurality of mobile power transmitters or donors deliver electric charge to one or a plurality of compatible power receivers, or vice versa. Alternatively, a plurality of mobile power receivers or donors and a plurality of power receivers or recipients form nodes of a peer-to-peer charge service, such as in a hub-spoke or a block-chain configuration. A system and/or method...