US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, TOYOTA BATTERY, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on Nov. 18 for "Measurement method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,153, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), TOYOTA BATTERY Co. LTD (Kosai, Japan) and PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Measurement method" was invented by Keito Horiba (Toyota, Japan), Taichi Urakami (Nissin, Japan), Seiji Ishizu (Toyota, Japan), Kazutoshi Iwata (Ichinomiya, Japan), Masakazu Umehara (Toyota, Japan) and Naoya Kishimoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement method includes a step of measuring an object to be measured and a reference object by a first measurement unit and a second measurement unit. The first measurement unit has a first displacement me...