US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 21 for "Electric vehicle routing to alternate charging stations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,268, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Electric vehicle routing to alternate charging stations" was invented by James G. Swartz (Prosper, Texas), Alexander M. Gross (Allen, Texas), James D. Wilder (Dallas) and James J. George (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving, from a vehicle, a request for a charge, determining, based on one or more preferences related to the vehicle, a charging location used by another vehicle with the same preferences, and routing the vehicle to the charging...