ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,350, issued on March 4, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Electric vehicle" was invented by Tomoki Wada (Shizuoka, Japan), Soraki Ogawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Masayuki Momoi (Shizuoka, Japan), Takaaki Miyazaki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yoshihiro Yamasaki (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle includes a wheel, an electric motor to drive the wheel, a battery to supply electric power to the electric motor, the battery including battery cells and a battery casing to house the battery cells, an onboard charger to charge the battery, the onboard charger being opposed to and spaced apart from an...