US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 4 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,861, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Jun Kobayashi (Obu, Japan), Takahiro Okano (Chiryu, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan) and Nobuhiro Nakano (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body side connector electrically connectable to the battery side connector and a holding portion that holds the vehicle body side connector. The holding portion holds the vehicle body si...