US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 9 for "Battery management system and battery management method for prediction, selection and charging" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,184, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery management system and battery management method for prediction, selection and charging" was invented by Junta Izumi (Nagoya, Japan), Kenji Kimura (Nagoya, Japan), Masakazu Habu (Toyota, Japan), Masanosuke Sufu (Toyota, Japan) and Makito Muramatsu (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery cellar includes a storage cabinet that stores a plurality of used batteries, a power converter (an AC/DC converter and a DC/DC converter) electrically connected between the plurality of used batteries stored in the storage cabinet and a power system...