ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,222, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Kenji Mizutani (Toyota, Japan), Hirotaka Ikegami (Toyota, Japan) and Akihito Yasue (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle includes: an accelerator pedal; a shifter; a mode selection device that selects a control mode for an electric motor from a manual mode and an automatic mode in accordance with a mode selection operation by a driver; and a motor control device. The motor control device varies an output characteristic of the electric motor for an o...