ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,850, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Method of managing power storage and vehicle" was invented by Yuko Terasawa (Tokyo-to, Japan), Makoto Kakuchi (Toyota, Japan), Toshiaki Karasawa (Tokyo-to, Japan), Takeshi Higashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshihiko Endo (Tokyo-to, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a method of managing a power storage, and the method includes determining whether or not a vehicle, including a body and a power storage mounted on the body, has been involved in an accident. The method also includes determining whether or not an owner of the power storage is the same as ...