ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,642, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Tatsuya Imamura (Okazaki, Japan), Kenji Mizutani (Toyota, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan) and Naoki Yamamuro (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle includes an electric motor as a driving source. The battery electric vehicle includes: a driving operation member that is used to drive the battery electric vehicle; a pseudo shifting operation member imitating an operation member that is used to perform a shifting operation of a manual transmiss...