ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,714, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).
"Transport-based energy allocation" was invented by Norman Lu (Fairview, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining, via a transport, a state of charge of a storage unit of the transport, determining, via the transport, an environment at a location, determining, via the transport, a status of a charging station at the location including at least one of a location energy cost and a location power level and providing, via the transport, a needed amount of energy to the charging station at the locati...