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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2023
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Mahesh Bhannur, Canton, MI (US);
Micah J Kaiser, Clinton Township, MI (US);
Nitin Singh, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jagannat Chengavalli Lakshminarayanan, Dearborn, MI (US);
Divya Siva Madhuri Malineni, Dearborn, MI (US);
Gayatri Mehta, Dearborn, MI (US);
Mark Poll, Plymouth, MI (US);
Abstract
The disclosure is generally directed to a method and system for charge station management including collecting data related to a plurality of charge stations, the data identifying location data, an operator, and a data provider for each of the plurality of charge stations; collating the data to match the location data with the operators of each of the plurality of charge stations; and sequentially merging the location data based on a set of criteria including the data from each of the data providers within a predetermined configurable radius defining a perimeter surrounding each data provider-identified location. Collecting raw data includes receiving the raw data from crowd-sourced data providers; receiving the raw data from the operators of the plurality of charge stations; and organizing the raw data as batch data. Sequentially merging includes setting the predetermined configurable radius about a data provider as a pivot point for a predetermined circumference; and merging location data within the predetermined circumference to remove redundant locations based on the set of criteria, including criteria identifying a same operator within the predetermined circumference.