US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 26 for "Navigation device and battery electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,299, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Navigation device and battery electric vehicle" was invented by Taiji Koike (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation device that generates a planned travel route from a current location to a destination via a waypoint. When a battery electric vehicle does not need to turn around to get from the current location to a first facility, the navigation device sets the first facility as the waypoint, and when the battery electric vehicle needs to turn around to get from the current location to the first facility, the navigation device sets a seco...