US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Electrified vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,108, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electrified vehicle" was invented by Masashi Yoshimi (Toyota, Japan) and Makoto Tawara (Ikeda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes: a mode switch that gives an instruction of switching being performed in order of a first mode, a third mode and a second mode, among the first mode, the second mode and the third mode; and a control device that sets a traveling mode to one of the modes in accordance with the mode switch operation and controls a motor and an auxiliary machine in accordance with the traveling mode. When the mode s...