ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,367, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Charging controller and vehicle" was invented by Tomoya Ono (Toyota, Japan), Toru Ando (Obu, Japan) and Yamato Niwa (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging controller carries out charging control of a power storage mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle includes a DC charging inlet. The charging controller carries out first charging control when a charging cable which is not a prescribed charging cable is connected to the DC charging inlet and carries out second charging control when the prescribed charging cable is connected to the DC charging ...