US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 14 for "Method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for data-based recommendations to limit vehicle battery degradation" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,263, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for data-based recommendations to limit vehicle battery degradation" 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 a degradation of a battery of each vehicle in a group of electric vehicles, wherein the degradation is at a rate greater than a threshold; determining a return when the degradation is lowered; and providing a po...