US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 23 for "Charge control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,010, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Charge control system" was invented by Akira Saita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge control system includes a state detection unit, an electricity rate calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the charge amount, the electricity rate table, and the discharge amount, a first electricity rate with respect to a charge and discharge amount from a first time to a next vehicle use time when charge is started, and calculate a second electricity rate with respect to a charge and discharge amount from a second time to the next vehicle use time when c...