ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,987, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Electric vehicle management device and electric vehicle management system" was invented by Akinori Morishima (Naka-gun, Japan) and Tohru Nakamura (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle management device manages an electric vehicle that is chargeable by an electric power system. The electric vehicle management device performs a state-of-charge (SOC) adjustment process for adjusting the SOC of the traveling electric vehicle based on a prediction value of a market price calculated based on information of a market price of electric po...