ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,990, issued on Feb. 11, 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 is mountable to a vehicle including an electric motor, a lock mechanism, and an actuator apparatus. The control apparatus controls the electric motor and a shift-by-wire system provided in the vehicle. The shift-by-wire system performs switching to shift ranges of the vehicle including a shift range and a non-parking range other than the parking range. The control apparatus drives the actuator apparatus to release the lock on the power tran...