US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Vehicle, charging system, and method of controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,521, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle, charging system, and method of controlling vehicle" was invented by Yamato Niwa (Kariya, Japan), Shigeki Kinomura (Toyota, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is configured to enable electric power to be fed from a charging stand to the vehicle and/or fed from the vehicle to the charging stand. The charging stand includes a movable unit and an elevation unit. The movable unit includes a charging connector to be connected to the vehicle. The elevation unit lifts and lowers the movable unit between...