US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 3 for "Vehicle management device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,166, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle management device" was invented by Hiroyuki Ogura (Ama, Japan), Hideo Sakamoto (Toyota, Japan), Yoshinobu Nozaki (Anjo, Japan), Hisashi Fujisawa (Toyota, Japan), Shoichi Iwamoto (Fuji, Japan), Mitsuaki Tomita (Toyota, Japan) and Yasunobu Seki (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle equipped with a driving unit for traveling, a power storage device capable of supplying power to the drive unit, and a solar cell system capable of supplying power generated by a solar cell to the power storage device. A vehicle management device that deter...