US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "Grid-related event prediction" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,035, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Grid-related event prediction" 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 an issue exists with a resource delivery to an electricity provider, determining an electric impact, based on the issue, determining an area that will be affected by the electric impact, and dispatching vehicles to provide electricity to locations within the area."

The patent was filed on Aug. 8, 2022...