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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,189, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Keiji Kaita (Miyoshi, Japan) and Takahiko Hirasawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles include a battery, a MG, and an ECU. The battery stores electric power as an energy source of the vehicle. MG generates the driving force of the vehicles by consuming power. ECU controls MG. Battery power includes green power and non-green power, each classified according to the greenhouse gas emission intensity. The emission intensity of green power is smaller than that of non-green power. ECU controls MG so as to limit the dri...