US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 28 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,744, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Jun Kobayashi (Obu, Japan), Takahiro Okano (Chiryu, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan) and Nobuhiro Nakano (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery-side connector and a cover that protects the battery-side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body-side connector electrically connectable to the battery-side connector. The cover exposes the battery-side connector when the b...