ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,256, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Control apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Shigeru Kamio (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a vehicle includes an offset torque calculator configured to perform calculation of offset torque to be applied to at least one wheel of the vehicle. The offset torque is required to stop the vehicle on a sloping road having a predetermined gradient. The control apparatus includes a motor controller configured to, for stopping the vehicle on the sloping road having the predetermined gradient, perform control of causing output torque of ...