ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,067, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"EV charging station optimization" was invented by Jeremy Lerner (Southfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optimizing a charger network is provided. For each vehicle trip of a plurality of vehicle trips defined by trip information maintained to a storage, a set of possible routes from an origin location of the respective vehicle trip to a destination location of the respective vehicle trip is generated using a routing algorithm. Best routes are identified based on the set of possible routes. Individual charger recommendations are identifie...