US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 25 for "Charging facility and control method of charging facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,916, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Charging facility and control method of charging facility" was invented by Shigeki Kinomura (Toyota, Japan) and Yamato Niwa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller executes a process including: a step of acquiring weather information when a first state is attained; and a step of executing lift-up control in the case of precipitation or in the case where precipitation is predicted within a first time; a step of maintaining the second state in the case where the precipitation is ended; and a step of executing lift-down control in the c...