US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Battery management system and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,655, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery management system and vehicle" was invented by Yuko Terasawa (Meguro-ku, Japan), Makoto Kakuchi (Toyota, Japan), Toshiaki Karasawa (Adachi-ku, Japan), Takeshi Higashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshihiko Endo (Minato-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management system is a system for managing a battery that is mounted on a vehicle capable of traveling with electric power and stores the electric power, and includes: an identification unit that identifies a degree of degradation of the battery before and after an accident of the vehicle; a...