ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,751, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BP PULSE FLEET NORTH AMERICA INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Real-time electric vehicle fleet management" was invented by Thomas Kiessling (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mike Makuch (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and devices for controlling electric vehicle charging across multiple customers and multiple fleets of electric vehicles. These methods, systems, and devices may implement machine learning to determine distinct charging strategies for a plurality of charging depots. Scheduling methods systems, and devices disclosed herein do not...