US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Electric vehicle based energy transaction" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,099, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Electric vehicle based energy transaction" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Justin A. Sanchez (Charlotte, N.C.) and Nejib Ammar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of predicting a charging duration of a vehicle connected to a charging station, based on data related to the vehicle, an individual associated with the vehicle, and the charging station; determining a length of time the individual will be in th...