ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,910, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Kenji Mizutani (Toyota, Japan) and Akihito Yasue (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery electric vehicle includes an accelerator pedal, a shifter, a data management device that manages vehicle characteristic data, and a motor control device that controls an electric motor according to the vehicle characteristic data. The vehicle characteristic data is data configured to change the output characteristic of the electric motor with respect to the operation of the accelera...