ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,504, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for charging/discharging electric vehicle" was invented by Young Soo Dow (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for charging/discharging an electric vehicle includes generating map information including a charging/discharging fee rate policy for mapped charging stations and registering the generated map information in a vehicle, identifying one or more charging stations capable of performing a charging/discharging of the vehicle based on the generated map information, selecting an optimal charging stat...