ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,289, issued on May 5, was assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Control device for electric vehicle" was invented by Hayate Tanaka (Tokyo), Masahiro Inoue (Tokyo), Hokuto Yokotsuji (Tokyo), Kiyotaka Ishikawa (Tokyo), Hajime Saeki (Tokyo), Yasuaki Kano (Tokyo), Masanori Shinya (Tokyo), Akihiro Tajikara (Tokyo) and Satsuki Yagi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a control device for an electric vehicle, a setting unit sets, as a maximum value of power capable of being charged into the battery, a short time SOP applied during charging in which a charging time is equal to or less than a predetermined time and a long tim...