ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,386, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Rui Masuda (Tokyo), Yosuke Naito (Tokyo) and Mamiko Inoue (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is configured to: execute motor assist when a vehicle is traveling by a drive wheel being driven by an internal combustion engine, in which electric power of a power storage device is supplied to an electric motor and the electric motor assists driving of the drive wheel; change upper-limit assist electric power, which is an upper-limit value of electric power supplied from the power storage device to the ...