Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Kenneth C Weber

Bo Yu

Kamran Ali

Mohamed A Layouni

Roddi L MacInnes

Jiabin Shen

Pedro Eduardo Villanueva Pena

Guanyang Luo

A vehicle charging station includes a connector adapted to connect a vehicle to the charging station, the charging station adapted to exchange information related to identification and charging requirements and capabilities, send a challenge to the vehicle, receive a response to the challenge from the vehicle, verify the response from the vehicle and store the response and the vehicle identification information within a database, wherein, the exchange of information between the vehicle and the charging station is performed within allowed duty cycle and voltage intervals such that the exchange of information between the vehicle and the charging station do not interfere with charging of the vehicle.

Electric vehicle and charging station communications

A system and method for locating a trailer coupler on a trailer to assist with the coupling of the trailer coupler to a vehicle hitch on a vehicle. The system includes a human-machine interface, a camera, a global positioning system, a remote computing system, a vehicle-to-infrastructure communication network, controllers, a memory, sensors, and a trailer coupler labeling application. The trailer coupler labeling application includes: sensing at least one of a hitched state and an unhitched state of the trailer coupler, capturing an optical data with the camera when the vehicle hitch is in the hitched and unhitched state, determining a distance of the trailer coupler relative to the camera when the vehicle hitch is in the hitched state, identifying the location of the trailer coupler on an image defined by the captured data and creating a label on the image of the trailer coupler.

System and method to locate and label a trailer coupler

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Ajax, Canada

Kenneth C Weber