ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,847, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Flight vehicle and MaaS provision method" was invented by Yoshifumi Otaki (Nisshin, Japan), Hirofumi Taniguchi (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroto Tsukamoto (Wako, Japan), Toshimitsu Saijo (Nisshin, Japan), Daisaku Higashi (Nagoya, Japan), Naoya Oka (Nagoya, Japan) and Daiki Kaneichi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a battery driven flight vehicle. The battery-driven flight vehicle, comprising: a control unit; and a battery charged by a power supply device, wherein the control unit executes flight control in accordance with a charging spe...