US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,919, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Jin Kobayashi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a power storage device, a charging circuit capable of external charging by converting AC power from a power system to DC power and charging the DC power to the power storage device when the vehicle is connected to the power system external to the vehicle, and a controller programming to control the charging circuit. The vehicle includes a detection circuit configured to detect the impedance of the charging path from the power system to the power storage d...