ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,977, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle monitoring apparatus" was invented by Makoto Ogiso (Mishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle monitoring apparatus provided in an electric vehicle equipped with a battery includes: a monitoring unit configured to monitor a state of a battery while the electric vehicle is stopped; and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating that the battery is in an abnormal state to an outside of the electric vehicle when the monitoring unit determines that the state of the battery is an abnormal state."
The patent was filed ...