US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 29 for "Electric vehicle auxiliary battery usage for energy consumption events" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,923, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Electric vehicle auxiliary battery usage for energy consumption events" 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 an event of a vehicle consuming a required amount of energy greater than a first threshold; providing, by a removable auxiliary battery of the vehicle, at least a portion of the required amount of energy during the event; and providing, by a core battery of the v...