US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 11 for "Power system for disconnecting from the grid and operating independently" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,264, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Power system for disconnecting from the grid and operating independently" was invented by Geoffrey David Gaither (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jonathan M. Shum (Canton, Mich.) and Allison McGowan (Ann Arbor, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining an adverse condition will exist on a power grid at a future time, identifying an electric vehicle at a location connected to the power grid and controlling the electric vehicle to store power based on the future time...