US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on Sept. 16 for "Method of controlling vehicle and hybrid vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,502, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Method of controlling vehicle and hybrid vehicle" was invented by Kosuke Obayashi (Kobe, Japan), Tomoki Tada (Akashi, Japan) and Mengqing Liu (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a driving wheel; at least one prime mover; a user interface that receives user's selection of a first traveling mode or a second traveling mode; and processing circuitry configured to control the prime mover in accordance with the selected traveling mode. When a selection disabling condition indicating a predetermined vehicle state is satisfied, the ...