ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,008, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NOTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Privacy-related electric vehicle charging" was invented by Norman Lu (Fairview, Texas) and Maximilian Parness (Takoma Park, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of: determining, by a charging station, that a vehicle requests approval to receive a charge; accessing, by the charging station, personal information related to the vehicle and related to an occupant of the vehicle; analyzing, by the charging station, the personal information related to the vehicle and relate...