ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,967, issued on May 26, was assigned to GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY Ltd. (Hebei, China).

"Method and device for timing scheduled charging, and terminal equipment" was invented by Mingwang Zhou (Hebei, China), Xuejing Yang (Hebei, China), Shujiang Chen (Hebei, China) and Zhimeng Yuan (Hebei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and a device for timing a scheduled charging, and a terminal device. The method for timing a scheduled charging comprises steps of: acquiring, in response to a condition that a charging gun is connected, a scheduled-charging start time for equipment and a first current-absolute-time at which a ...