ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,234, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Charging station recommendation apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Eup Jung Choi (Suwon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a charging station recommendation apparatus and a method thereof. The charging station recommendation apparatus includes a data collection device that collects vehicle data of a vehicle charged by at least one charging station at least once for each driver of the vehicle, a data processing device that generates driver charging information and/or vehicle charging inf...