US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Charging reservation and route planning with load balancing" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,231, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Charging reservation and route planning with load balancing" was invented by Oliver Lei (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining that at least two charging stops are projected to be required to complete travel along a planned route and determining a reachable first charging stop, within a first predefined proximity of the planned route. The method also includes determining one or more second charging stops, within a second predefined proximity of the planned route and reachable from the first charging stop, an...