ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,231, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Charging controller" was invented by Takahiro Misawa (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging controller is configured to carry out charging of a power storage with charging power to be restricted and to quit charging when a charging quitting condition is satisfied while charging is carried out. The charging controller is configured to change the charging quitting condition to move end of charging ahead in charging of the power storage by using a power feed facility when pricing of the power feed facility falls under time-based pricing a...