ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,888, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Multi-objective electric vehicle charging scheduler with configurable objective hierarchy" was invented by Steffen Limmer (Offenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for scheduling charging of electric vehicles by an electric vehicle charging system, wherein charging objectives to be considered in generating a charging schedule for one or more charging stations of the charging system are obtained, a hierarchy of the charging objectives is determined and the charging schedule is generated by performing a lexicographi...