US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,217, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"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: "The electric vehicle of the present disclosure is configured to use an electric motor as a power unit for traveling. The electric vehicle includes an accelerator pedal, a sequential shifter, and a controller. The controller is configured to change a motor torque output by the electric motor in response to operation of the accelerator pedal and operation of the sequ...