ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,992, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Computation system, charging plan creation program, and discharging plan creation program" was invented by Takashi Matsuda (Osaka, Japan), Changhui Yang (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Iida (Hyogo, Japan) and Atsuyoshi Kita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path finder sets a plurality of nodes in a state of charge (SOC) zone that is between a target SOC, which is set when a secondary battery provided in an electric moving body is charged, and a present SOC, and sets a plurality of nodes in a chargeable time period that i...