ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,331, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Kenji Mizutani (Toyota, Japan), Hirotaka Ikegami (Toyota, Japan) and Akihito Yasue (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery electric vehicle includes an accelerator pedal, a shifter, a mode selection device, and a control device. When the electric motor is controlled in EV mode, the control device changes the output of the electric motor in accordance with the operation of the accelerator pedal regardless of the operation position of the shifter, and when the electric ...