US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Battery replacement control device and battery replacement control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,959, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery replacement control device and battery replacement control system" was invented by Jun Kobayashi (Obu, Japan), Takahiro Okano (Chiryu, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan) and Nobuhiro Nakano (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server (battery replacement management server) includes: a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires number-of-users information (situation information) in a battery replacement apparatus; and a processor (control unit) that adjusts, based on the situation information, an incentive given to a use...