US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 24 for "Battery exchange guiding method and battery exchange system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,356, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery exchange guiding method and battery exchange system" was invented by Soshiro Murata (Toyota, Japan), Hiroshi Umeno (Nisshin, Japan), Takahiro Nomura (Okazaki, Japan) and Yuya Onozuka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery exchange guiding method includes: searching for a battery station that an electrically powered vehicle is able to reach (first searching); and searching for the battery station in which a battery with a larger SOC than a predetermined value (an SOC required to reach a destination from the battery station+a user's...