US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Method of controlling battery replacement, battery replacement control device, and battery replacement control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,343, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of controlling battery replacement, battery replacement control device, and battery replacement control system" was invented by Soshiro Murata (Toyota, Japan), Hiroshi Umeno (Nisshin, Japan), Takahiro Nomura (Okazaki, Japan) and Yuya Onozuka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling battery replacement includes obtaining information on a battery (first battery) and giving a notification that encourages battery replacement to a user of an electrically powered vehicle when a battery (second battery) lower in SOC than the batt...