ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,363, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Ryosuke Oya (Toyota, Japan) and Ippei Takesue (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle includes a battery, an inverter having three arm circuits, a motor having three coils connected to a neutral point and three arm circuits, a relay, a ground wire, and a controller. The controller can selectively perform a normal charging operation and a heat generation charging operation. In normal charging operation, equal current flows in all three coils in the positive direction from the neutral p...