ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,826, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle management method, vehicle management system, and computer system" was invented by Yuko Terasawa (Tokyo), Tomoyoshi Ueki (Toyota, Japan), Masahiro Kagami (Nagoya, Japan), Yasuhide Kurimoto (Kasugai, Japan), Hiroshi Yamasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Kenji Zaitsu (Nisshin, Japan) and Yoshihiko Endo (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle management method includes: obtaining first SOH information that indicates a degree of deterioration of a power storage device of a vehicle based on charge data on the power storage device measured while the...