ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,330, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle and vehicle control method" was invented by Tsubasa Migita (Sakai, Japan), Hiroshi Nagase (Nagoya, Japan), Yoichi Ogura (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Daisuke Mukai (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a battery including an all-solid-state battery configured to be externally chargeable with electric power supplied from outside of the vehicle, a heater configured to heat the battery, and a control device configured to control the heater. The control device controls the heater such that when a predetermined condition related to th...