ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,532, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hino Motors Ltd. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Brake control apparatus" was invented by Kohei Tsuchida (Hino, Japan) and Suguru Kato (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a brake control apparatus of an automobile that drives drive wheels by an electric motor to which electric power is supplied from a battery and obtains a braking force by regenerative braking of the electric motor while charging the battery, including: a speed change process unit configured to increase a rotation speed of the electric motor with respect to a rotation speed of the drive whe...