US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Charge control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,521, issued on Sept. 1, 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 for a battery mounted on an electric vehicle includes processing circuitry configured to: acquire an intention of a user related to charge; set a range of an upper limit SOC based on the intention of the user, the upper limit SOC being a SOC for ending the charge of the battery; acquire power consumption history of the battery; and set the upper limit SOC in the range of the upper limit SOC based on the power consumption history."

The patent was filed ...