ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,941, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus for managing charging plans for vehicle batteries" was invented by Kazune Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a charging system that is configured to charge batteries of respective vehicles includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The control apparatus includes one or more processors, and one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: acquire, from each of the vehicles, charging data comprising at least data on a target charge amount; determine, bas...