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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,725, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery electric vehicle and vehicle management system" was invented by Yoshikazu Hara (Atsugi, Japan), Tomio Yamanaka (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroshi Hiraiwa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle includes a speaker including an in-vehicle speaker that outputs a sound to the inside of the vehicle and an outside speaker that outputs sound to the outside of the vehicle. The battery electric vehicle further includes one or more processors configured to generate a pseudo engine sound and output the pseudo engine sound from a spe...