US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 5 for "Determination system, vehicle, and determination method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,909, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Determination system, vehicle, and determination method" was invented by Shohei Matsuoka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery ECU is a system that determines a battery assembly that stores power used for running a vehicle and that is mounted on the vehicle in a replaceable state, the system comprising: a processor; a memory that stores a genuine product characteristic that is a temperature change characteristic of a genuine product, the temperature change characteristic being a characteristic of an index which changes with temperature of the ...