US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Running mode proposal device, navigation device, and running control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,001, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Running mode proposal device, navigation device, and running control device" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Hiroya Chiba (Susono, Japan), Shuntaro Okazaki (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Kazuhisa Matsuda (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A running mode proposal device for proposing a running mode up to a destination of a vehicle is configured to: select a first running route by a predetermined algorithm unrelated to noncontact power supply; project, when assuming ...