US Patent Issued to ADVICS, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 29 for "Vehicle controller and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,017, issued on July 29, was assigned to ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller and vehicle control method" was invented by Shogi Fukukawa (Tokyo), Michihiro Otsubo (Tokyo), Akitsugu Sakai (Toyota, Japan) and Kazuki Miyake (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel controller executes a first correction process on a request value when the vehicle is traveling on an uphill road, and executes a second correction process on the request value when the vehicle is traveling on a downhill road. The first correction process corrects the request value such that the traveling sp...