US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on July 29 for "Grid event electric vehicle management" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,918, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Grid event electric vehicle 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 determining transports able to provide supplemental energy when an event occurs related to an electrical grid, selecting one or more of the determined transports to appear in order at a location affected by the event, where the order is based on a size of the selected transports, and provide the supplemental energy from the selected transports to th...