ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,451, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Tank module and vehicle installed with tank module" was invented by Yuki Kai (Nagoya, Japan) and Osamu Sawai (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tank module, including: a first tank module portion including: plural first tanks disposed in parallel, and a first manifold disposed with an arrangement direction of the plural first tanks as a length direction, and enables flow of fluid between the plural first tanks; a second tank module portion disposed below the first tank module portion, the second tank module portion including: plural second tan...