ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,957, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle management system and battery electric vehicle with sound effect output based on yaw rate" was invented by Yoshikazu Hara (Atsugi, Japan), Tomio Yamanaka (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroshi Hiraiwa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle management system is applied to a battery electric vehicle including an electric motor as a driving source. The vehicle management system includes one or more processors configured to generate a pseudo-engine sound and output the pseudo-engine sound from a speaker installed in the battery electric vehicle. T...