ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,251, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Electric vehicle" was invented by Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Kenji Mizutani (Toyota, Japan), Hirotaka Ikegami (Toyota, Japan) and Akihito Yasue (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electric vehicle of the present disclosure includes an accelerator pedal, a paddle type shifter, and a motor controller. The paddle type shifter is pre-registered with upshift operation, downshift operation, and mode switching operation. The motor controller switches a control mode of the electric motor between a manual mode and an automatic mode in response...