US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERINGS & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Coordinated scheduling of electric vehicle charging stations to enhance availability and utilization" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,499, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERINGS & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Coordinated scheduling of electric vehicle charging stations to enhance availability and utilization" was invented by Derek S. Caveney (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of: determining, by a server, a time when a vehicle at a charging bay of a charging station has completed charging, sending, by the server, an authorization to autonomously move the vehicle after the time, and providing, by the server, a location to move ...