ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,293, issued on Dec. 23.

"Electric vehicle charging recommendation systems and methods" was invented by Kai Wu (Pittsburgh), Dominique Meroux (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yan Fu (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Chen Zhang (South Lyon, Mich.), Hyongju Park (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Venkatarao Rebba (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle charging recommendation system is disclosed. The system comprises a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver is configured to receive a request from a user interface associated with a vehicle user. The request includes one or more of vehicle route information and vehicle State of Charge (...