US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 18 for "Electrically powered vehicle and method for controlling electrically powered vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,835, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electrically powered vehicle and method for controlling electrically powered vehicle" was invented by Toru Ando (Obu, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU performs processing including: a step of obtaining a pilot signal CPLT and a connector connection signal PISW; a step of determining, when a connector is attached, a type of the connector; a step of controlling, when there is a function corresponding to the type of the attached connector, the connector to be set to a lock state; a step of performing control...