US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Feb. 3 for "Regenerative braking control system that adjusts regenerative braking settings based on driving environment condition" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,765, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Regenerative braking control system that adjusts regenerative braking settings based on driving environment condition" was invented by Takehito Yokoo (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regenerative braking control system for a vehicle can include three switches located in a cabin of the vehicle. The three switches can correspond to three regenerative braking settings. The three regenerative braking settings can correspond to low, medium, and high amounts of regenerative braking torque to apply to one o...