ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,287, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"True electric vehicle charging price evalution and optimization" was invented by Lars Niklas Pettersson (Novi, Mich.) and Jonathan Hair (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle determines a current state of charge of the vehicle and a current battery temperature of a battery of the vehicle. The vehicle, based on at least the state of charge and battery temperature, determines a charge acceptance rate for the battery and determines if the acceptance rate meets at least one predefined parameter for charging. The vehicle finds at ...