ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,979, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Computing device, vehicle system, and method" was invented by Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Kazuhisa Matsuda (Sunto-gun, Japan), Fumihiko Nakamura (Susono, Japan), Manabu Handa (Susono, Japan) and Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes a CPU and a memory. A vehicle travels by consuming first electric power and second electric power. The first electric power is electric power, generation of a unit amount of which causes emission of a first amount of carbon dioxide. The second electric power is electric powe...