US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on Sept. 30 for "Transport battery repurposing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,887, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Transport battery repurposing" was invented by Emily S. Lerner (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Jordan Choby (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Kyle R. McMahon (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining a time when a battery of an electric transport loses efficiency below a threshold, determining a device apart from the transport that can be powered above the threshold using the battery, and providing a net gain or a net loss related to the electric transport and the device, when th...