ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,987, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Inventus Holdings LLC (Juno Beach, Fla.).

"System and method for electric vehicle charging control management" was invented by Ryan Patrick Callahan (Houston), Michael J. Haass (Minneapolis), Carlos Zada (North Palm Beach, Fla.) and Casey O'Keefe (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for managing electric vehicle charging control that provide the reduction of the operational cost to charge an electric vehicle by an energy provider and the reduction of load power consumption. In some examples, a charging control unit can include at least one proce...