US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 17 for "Battery electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,736, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Tatsuhiro Hashida (Aichi-ken, Japan), Ikuo Ando (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Nanae Iwasaki (Aichi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery electric vehicle selects and executes a charge mode from a first charge mode in which power supplied from an external power source device to a first neutral point of a first motor is supplied to a power storage device via the first motor and a first inverter, and a second charge mode in which power supplied from the external power source device to a second neutral poi...