US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABISHIKI on June 16 for "Determining energy sources to a location" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,708, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABISHIKI KAISHA (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Determining energy sources to a location" was invented by Norman Lu (Fairview, Texas) and Maximilian Parness (Takoma Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a vehicle, an amount of energy to provide to a location, the energy located in one or more energy sources including the vehicle, an energy storage device, and an electric grid, the determining based on an ambient temperature of the vehicle, an ambient temperature of the energy ...