ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,982, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Charge control system for electric vehicle" was invented by Yu Shimizu (Nagakute, Japan) and Fumiyoshi Kuribara (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a power reception unit receiving power from outside of the vehicle, a power storage device, and a control device performing control for charging the power storage device in accordance with a schedule set for timer charge. In the case where a charge time band of a first schedule defining a charge start time and a charge end time and a charge time band of a second schedule defining a c...