ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,739, issued on Sept. 9, 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: a driving operation member configured to be used to drive the battery electric vehicle; and a pseudo shifting operation member that imitates an operation member configured to be used to perform a shifting operation of a manual transmission internal combustion engine vehicle. A controller...