US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Charging system, vehicle, charge control device, and charging method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,141, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Charging system, vehicle, charge control device, and charging method" was invented by Daisuke Kamikihara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging system includes: a switch device and a control device. Each of charging ports is provided with a lid configured to open and close a corresponding one of the charging ports. The control device is configured to determine whether a predetermined charge prohibition condition is satisfied before starting charging an electric energy storage device using any one of the charging ports, and when the predete...