US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Server, charging system and charging method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,292, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Server, charging system and charging method" was invented by Fumihiko Nakamura (Susono, Japan), Yoshihiro Sakayanagi (Mishima, Japan), Masato Ehara (Gotemba, Japan) and Koichi Ueda (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server comprising a processor. Further, the processor acquires credit card information and a one-time password from a vehicle connected to a charging device through a secure first communication path; acquires the one-time password from the vehicle through the charging device and a non-secure second communication path which is differ...