ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,636, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery electric vehicle and control device" was invented by Satoshi Kaneko (Gotemba, Japan), Kazuki Fujii (Hadano, Japan) and Norimi Asahara (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery electric vehicle includes a processing circuit and a storage device. The storage device stores a database that manages a plurality of vehicle models modeled on a plurality of virtual vehicles. The processing circuit reads the target vehicle model corresponding to the target virtual vehicle selected by the driver from the database. In addition, the processing circuitr...