ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,790, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for vehicle system charging" was invented by Ajith Kuttannair Kumar (Erie, Pa.), Subhas Chandra Das (Bangalore, India) and Sarit Ratadiya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller may control a transfer of electric energy between two or more energy storage devices of a plurality of energy storage devices, at least one energy storage device being disposed onboard a vehicle system, and identify a transfer restriction on the transfer. The controller may change a transfer characteristic based at least in part on t...