US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Multiple vehicles to provide energy to a location" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,145, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Multiple vehicles to provide energy 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 halting, by a vehicle, charge to a location when a battery capacity of the vehicle is below a threshold; determining, by the vehicle, another vehicle that is available to provide charge to the location; maneuvering, by the vehicle, to a charging station; maneuvering, by the another vehicle, to the location; and...