ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,983, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Charge control device" was invented by Yoshihiro Sakayanagi (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge control device includes a processor configured to: acquire a delivery scheduled time of a vehicle and an amount of charge of a rechargeable battery when the vehicle including the rechargeable battery is connected to any one of a plurality of chargers of a single phase, each of the plurality of chargers being connected to each phase of the three-phase alternating current; and control the any one of the plurality of chargers such that the three-...