US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 24 for "Vehicle control device to control vehicle power source based on electric power price, gasoline price and total carbon dioxide emissions discharged" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,438, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device to control vehicle power source based on electric power price, gasoline price and total carbon dioxide emissions discharged" was invented by Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Masato Maemura (Nisshin, Japan), Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan) and Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a rotating electrical machine and a gasoline engine, and controls a vehicle that receives electric power from a power supply lane provided on a road side and charges a battery that outputs power of the ...