US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 9 for "Solar charging system, method, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,912, issued on June 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Solar charging system, method, and vehicle" was invented by Kohki Ohkoshi (Nagoya, Japan), Yuma Miyamoto (Toyota, Japan), Taisuke Hayashi (Miyoshi, Japan), Takashi Fukai (Oobu, Japan), Akinori Kawamura (Okazaki, Japan) and Masahiro Takahashi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar charging system includes a solar panel, a power conversion unit configured to output electric power generated by the solar panel, a battery configured to be directly charged via the power conversion unit with electric power generated by the solar panel, and one or more...