US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on May 27 for "Vehicle-to-vehicle charging" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,157, issued on May 27, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Vehicle-to-vehicle charging" was invented by Narendar Rao Gannamaneni (Gothenburg, Sweden), Lars Johan Henrik Sjostedt (Gothenburg, Sweden), Arsam Golriz (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Niklas Smith (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can comprise determining, by a first controller comprising a processor, of a first vehicle, a first voltage rating of a first battery of the first vehicle and a state of charge of the first battery. In various embodiments, the method can further comprise determining, by the first controller, based on an output...