US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 8 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,738, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle" was invented by Takahiro Uchimura (Tokyo), Takashi Umezu (Tokyo) and Nozomi Aoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle battery, a motor generator, a circuit, and a controller. The motor generator receives and outputs electric power from and to the vehicle battery and an external battery. The circuit couples the vehicle battery and the external battery to the motor generator. The controller controls the vehicle battery and the external battery, based on a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, electric power is transferred b...