US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Control device and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,523, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device and vehicle" was invented by Shinji Ichikawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU (control device) includes a processor and a communication unit that communicates with each of the plurality of battery packs (batteries). Each of the plurality of battery packs is configured to execute an electrical leakage detection process and is replaceable. The processor selects one battery to execute the electrical leakage detection process from the battery packs, based on information on the communication start timings of the battery packs a...