US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "EV battery degradation in a fleet" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,888, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K..

"EV battery degradation in a fleet" 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 objects to be delivered by a group of vehicles, and choosing a vehicle of the group of vehicles with a most degraded battery to transport a heaviest object of the objects."

The patent was filed on Aug. 13, 2024, under Application No. 18/801,980.

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