US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 4 for "Control method, control device, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,902, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control method, control device, and vehicle" was invented by Toru Ogaki (Tokyo), Shizuki Kino (Tokyo), Yuki Tani (Tokyo) and Kazuya Kurahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where a battery is scheduled to be charged at charging equipment included in a scheduled travel route of a vehicle, a preheating control for heating the battery by the heating device is executed before the vehicle arrives at the charging equipment such that a temperature of the battery when the vehicle arrives at the charging equipment reaches a predetermined target temperature, ...