An idle fleet is a parked asset; this patent tries to make it a revenue-generating one. On June 17, 2025, GM Cruise was granted US12332657B2, "Centrally dispatched power supply using autonomous electric vehicle fleet." The CPC stack — G05D 1/0297, 1/0088 (autonomous control), B60L 53/36, 53/53, 53/62, 58/12 (charging) plus G06Q scheduling codes — fuses fleet dispatch with energy markets.The financial idea is to treat a fleet's batteries as dispatchable grid capacity when the vehicles aren't earning fares. That turns a capital asset already on the balance sheet into a second revenue stream — selling power or grid services during idle hours. It is the kind of asset-utilization logic that improves the return on an expensive fleet.The honest read is that a dispatch patent documents the mechanism, not the revenue. Whether idle-fleet power dispatch ever became a real, paid service — and what it earned — lives in segment and services disclosures, not in the grant. An analyst treats it as a forward-looking revenue logic to watch.For the ledger reader, file this under latent-asset revenue logic and keep it subordinate to disclosures. The primary source for any revenue claim is the relevant SEC filing on sec.gov, with EdgarBeast credited as the evidence index.Read it as a 2025 asset-utilization position from GM Cruise. The revenue receipt is in the disclosures — the grant only tells you the second revenue stream was being designed.