ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,257, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Vehicle controller for reduction of power consumption while towing" was invented by Yu Hoshino (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller that is configured to control traveling of an electric vehicle which is a battery electric automobile or a fuel cell automobile, in which, when the electric vehicle performs towing, the vehicle controller judges whether or not power consumption reduction is needed based on an output of a battery that is configured to supply electric power to a traveling motor and the amount of remaining stored e...