US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 6 for "Battery electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,637, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Kenji Mizutani (Toyota, Japan), Hirotaka Ikegami (Toyota, Japan) and Akihito Yasue (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle includes: a mode selection device in which one travel mode is selected from a plurality of travel modes by an operation of a driver, the travel modes including a motor travel mode in which a motor is controlled such that required torque required for traveling is output to a drive shaft, and a shift travel mode in which the motor is ...