US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on July 29 for "Electric transport charging determination" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,917, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Electric transport charging determination" was invented by Max K. Ralya (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Tapan V. Patel (South Lyon, Mich.) and Benjamin J. Groelke (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining a first transport attempting to access a bay with a charging station can utilize the charging station and has a higher priority than a second transport utilizing the charging station in the bay and notifying the second transport to cease utilizing the charging statio...