US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 3 for "Battery electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,015, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Takahiro Uchida (Kasugai, Japan), Seiji Arakawa (Nisshin, Japan), Kazuhito Sakai (Mishima, Japan) and Chie Fukuhara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle that uses an electric motor as a traction power unit includes one or more speakers that output sound to at least one of inside and outside of the vehicle, one or more processors, and one or more storage devices for storing usage state information of the electric vehicle and sound source data. The one or more processors estimate fitn...