US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 16 for "Battery control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,591, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery control system" was invented by Sho Kiyoshige (Nisshin, Japan), Masaki Sugiura (Seto, Japan) and Masaaki Kyo (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery that supplies power to an electrical load mounted on a vehicle, an information acquisition device that acquires the number of times a specific discharge has occurred from the battery and the time the vehicle has been used, and a specific discharge of the battery acquired by the information acquisition device. This battery control system includes a battery deterioration determination dev...