US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on Dec. 30 for "Adjusting battery soc based on future use of an electric vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,942, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Adjusting battery soc based on future use of an electric vehicle" was invented by Arlo C. Eitzer (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Lisa B. DiMaggio (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Allison McGowan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Emily S. Lerner (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Alessandro Concas (Belleville, Mich.), Abril A. Galang (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Jordan Choby (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Max K. Ralya (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Tapan V. Patel (South Lyon, Mich.) and Benjamin J. Groelke (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery manager includes a pattern estimator,...