US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 29 for "Selecting second life battery for electric tractors" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,832, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Selecting second life battery for electric tractors" was invented by Allison McGowan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Adam Muehlhauser (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Matthew James Dula (Saline, Mich.) and Rudra Sanjiv Mehta (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems, devices, and methods described herein relate to producing or selecting a second-life battery that would be unsuitable for an electric vehicle but suitable for use with a tractor or other work vehicle. The second-life ...