US Patent Issued to Hino Motors, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 9 for "Traveling propriety determination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,796, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hino Motors Ltd. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Traveling propriety determination device" was invented by Koichiro Taniguchi (Hino, Japan) and Jun Namima (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state determination unit determines whether a state of traveling performance of a fuel cell vehicle is a normal performance state, a limited performance state, or a low performance state. When the state determination unit determines that the fuel cell vehicle is in the normal performance state or the limited performance state, a traveling propriety determination unit determines tha...