ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,644, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle management device managing parking position in a parking lot and vehicle" was invented by Hideo Sakamoto (Toyota, Japan), Yoshinobu Nozaki (Anjyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Ogura (Ama, Japan), Hisashi Fujisawa (Toyota, Japan), Mitsuaki Tomita (Toyota, Japan), Yasunobu Seki (Nissin, Japan) and Shoichi Iwamoto (Fuji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle management device for managing parking positions in a parking lot of a plurality of vehicles equipped with a solar battery and a power storage device for storing electric power generated by the solar ba...