ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,981, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"V2V charging system and method" was invented by Jonathan Disley (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Tong Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A V2V charging system including an on-board system that includes a battery; a detection unit configured to detect a position of the EV, a battery condition of the battery and a destination of a current trip of the EV, wherein the battery condition includes an amount of remaining energy, a number of charge and discharge cycles, and current battery capacity; a communication unit configured to send a charge request to a ser...