ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,366, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for controlling charging electrically driven transport vehicles" was invented by Myoung Jun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging control system and method are provided for electrically driven transport vehicles to efficiently perform charging control on electrically driven transport vehicles according to a charging priority, which is determined by a charging system of a hub based on state variables, such as travel schedule information of the electrically driven transport ve...