US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "Taxi vehicle management method and taxi vehicle management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,514, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Taxi vehicle management method and taxi vehicle management system" was invented by Daisuke Tsutsumi (Nagoya, Japan), Makoto Kakuchi (Toyota, Japan), Yurika Tanaka (Yokosuka, Japan), Kazuya Tsuchiya (Toyota, Japan) and Hiroaki Sugiyama (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A taxi vehicle management method includes: evaluating, based on DR contribution history information, a degree of contribution to demand response for energy management by a driver of a taxi vehicle, the DR contribution history information indicating a history of contribution to the ...