ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,730, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Route search device" was invented by Takahiro Misawa (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route search device includes: a route search unit that searches for a route for a vehicle that runs on power of a rechargeable battery to reach a destination; a station search unit that searches for a plurality of charging stations that is geographically available to the vehicle based on the searched route, and acquires output information of chargers installed in each of the charging stations; a calculation unit that calculates, for each of the searched cha...