ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,023, issued on April 29, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for positioning a vehicle at a charging station" was invented by Victor Sandgren (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jingxu Gu (Kungalv, Sweden) and Mikaela Ohman (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for positioning a vehicle at a charging station. The system comprises: a wireless communication arrangement comprising a first communication device configured to wirelessly communicate with a second communication device by a wireless protocol; a vehicle positioning arrangement comprising a transmitting antenna configured to transmi...