US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on July 21 for "Ranking vehicle charging stations" (Swedish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,399, issued on July 21, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Ranking vehicle charging stations" was invented by Virginie Harth (St Didier de Formans, France) and Ulf Danielsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system has a processor device configured to, for each vehicle charging station in a set of vehicle charging stations: receive topography data indicative of elevations within a predefined area around the vehicle charging station; determine, based on the topography data, a maximum possible altitude drop in relation to the vehicle charging station within the area; and determine, bas...