ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,804, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Extending EV range through connected vehicles" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, Calif.), Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of directing a group of connected vehicles to occupy one or more lanes approaching an intersection and notifying one of the connected vehicles to exit the group using another of the one or...