ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,277, issued on June 23, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and system for block scheduling for electric vehicle with intraday charging" was invented by Abhay Kumar (Bangalore, India), Deepak Nagar (New Delhi), Vinay Ramanath (Bengaluru, India) and Smaran Subbaiah Bommanda Ganapathi (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for block scheduling for an electric vehicle are provided. The method includes obtaining route information including designated routes and their distances in a defined operation period for the EV, and battery information including a consumption factor and a charging rate for a...