# US 12,112,350 B2 · Devices for home based electric vehicle (EV) charging > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,112,350 B2 - Document ID: US12112350B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/933,335 - Filed: 2022-09-19 - Published: 2023-03-16 - Granted: 2024-10-08 - Earliest claimed: 2021-09-13 - Assignees: IoTecha Corp. - Applicants: IoTecha Corp. - Inventors: Oleg Logvinov; Kimberly Sarubbi; Adrian Weidmann - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12112350B2 ## CPC - G06Q 30/0251: Targeted advertisements - B60L 53/305: {Communication interfaces} - B60L 53/36: by positioning the vehicle - B60L 53/53: Batteries - B60L 53/60: Monitoring or controlling charging stations - B60L 53/65: involving identification of vehicles or their battery types - B60L 53/665: {Methods related to measuring, billing or payment} - B60L 53/68: Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control - G01S 19/396: {Determining accuracy or reliability of position or pseudorange measurements} - G01S 19/51: Relative positioning - G06Q 30/0271: {Personalized advertisement} - H02J 7/40: characterised by the exchange of charge or discharge related data - H04N 7/0255: {Display systems therefor} - H04N 21/4131: {home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices (home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807)} - H04W 4/06: Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services - H04W 4/21: for social networking applications - B60L 53/00: Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles - B60L 2240/68: Traffic data - B60L 2240/70: Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres - G06Q 30/0214: Referral reward systems - G06Q 30/0269: {based on user profile or attribute} - H02J 7/82: Control of state of charge [SOC] - H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information - Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries - Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors - Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract Devices are disclosed for home based electric vehicle (EV) charging. According to one embodiment, an EV charger includes a processor, a memory electrically coupled with the processor, EV charging circuitry electrically coupled with the processor, a network interface electrically coupled with the processor, and a broadcast transmitter electrically coupled with the processor. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electric vehicle (EV) charger comprising: a processor; a memory electrically coupled with the processor; EV charging circuitry electrically coupled with the processor; a network interface electrically coupled with the processor; a broadcast transmitter electrically coupled with the processor; and a broadcast receiver and a tuner electrically coupled with the processor, wherein: the EV charger is configured for home-based EV charging; the broadcast transmitter is configured to provide an over-the-air (OTA) signal to a television; and the broadcast receiver and the tuner are configured to determine channel spectrum availability for the broadcast transmitter. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The EV charger of claim 1, wherein the broadcast transmitter is configured to provide an over-the-air (OTA) signal to a television. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The EV charger of claim 1, wherein the OTA signal is compliant to at least one version of an Advanced Television Systems Committee standard or a Digital Video Broadcast-Terrestrial (DVD-T) system standard. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The EV charger of claim 1 further comprising an antenna electrically coupled with an output the broadcast transmitter. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The EV charger of claim 4, wherein the antenna is at least one of a dipole antenna, a loop antenna, a log periodic antenna, and a multi-bay reflective array antenna. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The EV charger of claim 1 further comprising a display electrically coupled with the broadcast receiver and the tuner. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The EV charger of claim 1, wherein the EV charger is configured for: receiving charging enabled parking space influenced media data over the network interface; and transmitting at least a portion of the charging enabled parking space influenced media data via the broadcast transmitter. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The EV charger of claim 7, wherein the portion of the charging enabled parking space influenced media data is used to offset costs associated with home-based EV charging. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The EV charger of claim 7 further comprising transcoding circuitry electrically coupled between the processor and the broadcast transmitter, wherein the transcoding circuitry is configured to transcode the charging enabled parking space influenced media data to provide the portion of the charging enabled parking space influenced media data. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The EV charger of claim 7, wherein the network interface is configured to receive the charging enabled parking space influenced media data over the Internet. ### Claim 11 A method implemented on an electric vehicle (EV) charger having a broadcast transmitter, a broadcast receiver, a tuner, and a network interface, the method including: determining channel spectrum availability for the broadcast transmitter using the broadcast receiver and the tuner; receiving charging enabled parking space influenced media data over the network interface; and transmitting at least a portion of the charging enabled parking space influenced media data via the broadcast transmitter, wherein the EV charger is configured for home-based EV charging. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, wherein the portion of the charging enabled parking space influenced media data is used to offset costs associated with home-based EV charging. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, wherein the charging enabled parking space influenced media data is determined based on user information. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the user information includes user survey information. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the user information includes user social networking information. ### Claim 16 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, wherein the broadcast transmitter is configured to provide an over-the-air (OTA) signal to a television. ### Claim 17 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11 further comprising transcoding the charging enabled parking space influenced media data to provide the portion of the charging enabled parking space influenced media data.