US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Vehicle controller, vehicle including the same, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,012, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, vehicle including the same, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Tomoya Ono (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU includes a processor that controls transmission and reception of signals between a vehicle and a charging facility in accordance with a communication sequence defined in a charging standard. The processor transmits, to the charging facility, a regular signal for obtaining a charging permission from the charging facility, prior to a start of electric power supply from the charging facility to the ...