ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,084, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle system for battery module allocation" was invented by Mami Osawa (Tokyo) and Yuji Ohori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a traveling motor, a traveling battery that drives at least one wheel, a low-voltage electric component, at least one processor, and a storage medium. The traveling battery includes battery modules each including battery cells and supplies electric power to the traveling motor. The low-voltage electric component operates at a voltage lower than an output voltage of the traveling battery. The storage medium stores a progra...