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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,731, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Fuel cell electric vehicle" was invented by Tomohiro Shinagawa (Toyota, Japan), Yuchi Yamanouchi (Toyota, Japan) and Takuro Mizushima (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell electric vehicle comprises a fuel cell; a pair of side rails extending in a front-and-rear direction of the vehicle under a floor of the vehicle; a plurality of hydrogen tanks disposed under the floor of the vehicle, at a rear side of a front wheel, and at a front side of a rear wheel; and a main battery for storing electric power generated by the fuel cell, where...