US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 27 for "Systems and methods for user negotiation at a multi-vehicle charging station" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,790, issued on May 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for user negotiation at a multi-vehicle charging station" was invented by Eri Izumi Maeda (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), David Wong Cun (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Richard Pham (Lakewood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a multi-vehicle charging station are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a charging station configured to provide a host vehicle a charge according a host vehicle charging schedule. The method also includes identifying a proximate vehicle based on a charging distance between ...