US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Nov. 4 for "Distance-based energy transfer from a transport" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,391, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Distance-based energy transfer from a transport" 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 determining an estimated arrival time of a first transport to a charging station, determining an estimated remaining stored transport energy at the estimated arrival time of the first transport, notifying the first transport to provide a portion of the determined remaining stored transport energy and when a next transport is delayed to the charging station, notifying the first transp...