US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Oct. 21 for "Power allocation to transports" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,852, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Power allocation to transports" was invented by Norman Lu (Fairview, Texas) and Maximilian Parness (Takoma Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a station, a first group of transports in need of charge and a second group of transports capable of providing charge, prioritizing, by the station, at least one transport of the second group to come to the station at a time prior to when at least one transport of the first group comes to the station, receiving, at the station, a first amoun...