ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,179, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for providing information on available charging stations based on DTE" was invented by Han Shik Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle charging control system and a method therefor are provided. The vehicle charging control system includes a vehicle that identifies whether a distance to empty (DTE) is changed based on charging at a location of a first charging station among at least one charging station. The vehicle transmits state information of the first charging station...