US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Plan preparation system and plan preparation apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,354, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Plan preparation system and plan preparation apparatus" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan), Yoshihiro Sakayanagi (Mishima, Japan), Midori Sugiyama (Susono, Japan), Tomohiro Kaneko (Mishima, Japan) and Hirotaka Saito (Sunto-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server prepares a charging plan for a travel route to a destination. The server obtains an outside air temperature and a battery temperature. The server reads a map from a storage, and calculates an amount of required heat required for increasing the battery temperature to a target t...