ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,229, issued on July 21, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Battery charging control device" was invented by Kenji Morikawa (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge controller including: an environment prediction part that predicts, during charging of a battery mounted on a vehicle, a state of an external environment of the vehicle after an end of charging; a target temperature setting part that sets a target temperature of the battery at the end of charging on the basis of the state of the external environment predicted by the environment prediction part; and temperature adjusting part that adjusts a temperat...