US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Vehicle battery element management" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,623, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle battery element 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 providing electricity to a vehicle by a plurality of elements in a battery, determining an element of the plurality of elements is operating below a threshold, disabling the element, and providing the electricity by remaining elements of the plurality of elements."

The patent was filed on May 4, 2022, under Application No. 1...