US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 14 for "Vehicle management method and server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,722, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle management method and server" was invented by Yuko Terasawa (Tokyo-to, Japan), Makoto Kakuchi (Toyota, Japan), Toshiaki Karasawa (Tokyo-to, Japan), Takeshi Higashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshihiko Endo (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle management method for managing a power storage device included in a vehicle includes: determining a first fee commensurate with a first degree of degradation of the power storage device evaluated in an evaluation period by a first method; determining a second fee commensurate with a second degre...