US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 19 for "Battery electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,026, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Yoichiro Isami (Toyota, Japan), Kenji Mizutani (Toyota, Japan), Hirotaka Ikegami (Toyota, Japan) and Akihito Yasue (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle includes a motor configured to output torque for driving to a drive shaft, a mode selector configured to select a driving mode from a plurality of driving modes based on driver's operation including a motor driving mode that the battery electric vehicle is driven by outputting a required torque required for driving from the motor and...