US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 6 for "Directed energy distribution" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,722, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Directed energy distribution" 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 at least one high-priority device at a location, determining a loss of electricity at the location has occurred thereby rendering the device unusable, and directing electricity from a vehicle to the device, based on a need being over a threshold."

The patent was filed on May 17, 2022, under Application No....