ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,526, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K..
"Server, vehicle, and vehicle diagnosis method" was invented by Toru Nakamura (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle diagnosis method includes a) determining, when a subject vehicle including a power storage enters a chargeable state in which it can receive power feed from EVSE, whether or not charging of the power storage is started in the subject vehicle, b) determining whether or not timer-programmed charging has been set in the subject vehicle that has entered the chargeable state, and c) determining whether or not charging and discharging control of th...