ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,750, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).
"Load effects on transport energy" was invented by Norman Lu (Fairview, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of providing to a charging station a distance desired to be driven by a transport and determining, by the charging station, an amount of energy to retrieve from the transport such that a residual amount of energy in the transport is equivalent to the distance desired to be driven."
The patent was filed on April 15, 2024, under Application No. 18/635,085.
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