US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 17 for "Charger selection system, charger selection method, and charger selection program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,743, issued on March 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Charger selection system, charger selection method, and charger selection program" was invented by Masaaki Takegata (Osaka, Japan), Makoto Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Iida (Hyogo, Japan) and Masaharu Amaike (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge control map for chargers specifies the relationship between an upper limit current and charging conditions including at least one of the temperature of the chargers, the state of charge (SOC) of a secondary battery mounted in an electrically driven vehicle to ...