US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 15 for "Vehicle carbon output management" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,810, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle carbon output management" was invented by Norman Lu (Fairview, Texas) and Maximilian Parness (Takoma Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining a usage of an internal combustible engine (ICE) vehicle and a usage of an electric vehicle over a period of time, where the vehicles are associated with an entity, determining an impact of carbon output, based on the usage determination, determining a usage amount of the electric vehicle to offset the...