US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 14 for "Vehicle managing energy at a location during an event" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,262, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle managing energy at a location during an event" was invented by Christopher A. Ferone (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a vehicle, a first amount of time until the vehicle arrives at a location experiencing a power outage, determining, by the vehicle, a second amount of time until a threshold associated with one or more devices in the location is exceeded, and the second amount of time is less...