US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Nov. 4 for "Energy transfer based on intended use" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,385, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Energy transfer based on intended use" 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 establishing communication between a transport and a location via a module including a battery, determining an energy amount in the transport and an energy requirement at the location, and initiating a transfer of a portion of the energy amount from the transport to the battery based on an intended use of the portion at one or more devices at the locat...