ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,531, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Charge control device and charge control method" was invented by Kota Ogasawara (Tokyo), Akira Saita (Tokyo) and Toru Ogaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge control device for charging a battery with electric power supplied from an external power supply includes: an external power supply information acquisition unit that acquires external power supply information including a voltage of the external power supply; a battery information acquisition unit that acquires battery information including a temperature, a voltage, and an electric current of the ba...