US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 17 for "Vehicle management device and vehicle management method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,282, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle management device and vehicle management method" was invented by Akinori Morishima (Naka-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle management device manages a vehicle group. The vehicle management device includes one or more computers. The vehicle management device periodically communicates with one or more target vehicles in the vehicle group. The target vehicles are operable as a balancing power for a power grid. The vehicle management device communicates with the target vehicles in at least one of a first period, a second period, and a ...