ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,700, issued on April 22, was assigned to JATCO LTD (Fuji, Japan) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Tarou Murazumi (Atsugi, Japan), Hajime Tasaka (Ebina, Japan), Junki Matsui (Fuji, Japan) and Masakatsu Ogawa (Isehara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a transmission which has a first oil pump driven by rotation of a drive source that drives a drive wheel and a second oil pump provided with a check valve on a suction side and driven by a motor. In a vehicle control device for controlling the vehicle, a minimum value of a drive current value of the motor is define...