US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 30 for "Electrified vehicle with electronic control unit that locks charging lid during program rewriting" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,006, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electrified vehicle with electronic control unit that locks charging lid during program rewriting" was invented by Keiichi Fujiura (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes a power storage device, a charger that charges the power storage device using power from an external power source, and a charging inlet that is connectable to a charging connector of the external power source and connected to the charger via a power line, an openable and closable charging lid that covers the charging inlet from the outside, a lock mec...