US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 20 for "Charging control apparatus, moving body, charging control system, and charging control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,685, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Charging control apparatus, moving body, charging control system, and charging control method" was invented by Akira Saita (Tokyo) and Yu Fujimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With a charging control apparatus, a current SOC and target SOC of a battery and an electricity cost per unit power of charging equipment are acquired. Then, a charging schedule is set that lowers the deterioration acceleration of the battery by making a comparison between the current SOC and the target SOC, while considering the electricity cost."

The patent was filed on Feb. 2, 20...