US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 25 for "Electrically-powered vehicle, energy supply apparatus, and energy supply system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,911, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electrically-powered vehicle, energy supply apparatus, and energy supply system" was invented by Shigeki Kinomura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically-powered vehicle supplements energy independently from each of a plurality of supply apparatuses that supply the energy. The electrically-powered vehicle includes a controller. The controller is configured to hold a plurality of pieces of vehicle control software, associated with at least two of pieces of control software of each of the plurality of supply apparatuses, and, when the ...