US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Power source system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,220, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power source system" was invented by Yasuhiro Endo (Toyota, Japan), Junta Izumi (Nagoya, Japan), Hironori Miki (Nagoya, Japan), Kenji Kimura (Nagoya, Japan), Takayuki Ban (Nishio, Japan), Takuya Mizuno (Nagakute, Japan), Shuji Tomura (Nagakute, Japan), Naoki Yanagizawa (Nagakute, Japan), Kazuo Ootsuka (Nagakute, Japan) and Hiroshi Tsukada (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power source system includes a first battery string, a second battery string, and a third battery string. Each of the battery strings includes a plurality of batteries capa...