US Patent Issued to Induct EV on March 3 for "Strategic opportunity charging for on-route electric vehicles" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,118, issued on March 3, was assigned to Induct EV Inc. (King of Prussia, Pa.).

"Strategic opportunity charging for on-route electric vehicles" was invented by Matthew L. Ward (Exton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electric vehicles (EVs) for pick-up and delivery services using opportunity charging are routed in response to a task request for package or person pick-up and drop-off. A candidate EV for the task is determined based on a preliminary route analysis of routes between the pick-up and drop-off locations including an estimate of point-to-point travel time and electrical power consumption for each candidate EV. The candidat...