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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,247, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Ippei Takesue (Nisshin, Japan) and Takahiro Misawa (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle includes a power storage device, a cooling device, and a control device. The cooling device cools the power storage device together with driving of an electric compressor connected to the power line together with the power storage device. The control device transmits the required power to the external power supply device at the time of the external charging for charging the power storage device via the power line using the p...