ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,356, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of managing power storage and power storage management system, and computer apparatus, vehicle, and server" was invented by Yuko Terasawa (Tokyo-to, Japan), Makoto Kakuchi (Toyota, Japan), Toshiaki Karasawa (Tokyo-to, Japan), Takeshi Higashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshihiko Endo (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing a power storage includes determining whether or not a vehicle including a power storage has been involved in an accident, obtaining a degree of damage to the power storage when it is determined that the vehicle...