ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,207, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Control apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Yoshitomo Takeuchi (Kariya, Japan), Kousuke Baba (Kariya, Japan), Yoshihiro Sato (Kariya, Japan) and Taisuke Kurachi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a vehicle determines whether to perform either a first control or a second control. In the first control, power is transferred between a power supply facility outside a vehicle and a power storage apparatus during stopping of the vehicle. In the second control, power is transferred between a rotating electric machine and the power stor...