US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,971, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electric vehicle" was invented by Hiroki Kunifuda (Chiryu, Japan), Yoji Kiyokawa (Okazaki, Japan) and Noriyuki Yamanaka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle includes: an intake device provided upstream of an intake pipe of an engine; a power transmission device configured to transmit a power of an electric motor to drive wheel; an electric-power control device configured to control an electric power transferred between a driving battery and the electric motor; and a charger configured to charge the driving battery with the elect...