ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,253, issued on July 1, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Hybrid vehicle system" was invented by Yasumasa Imamura (Aki-gun, Japan), Juntaro Matsuo (Aki-gun, Japan), Daisuke Umetsu (Aki-gun, Japan), Kohei Okada (Aki-gun, Japan) and Junichi Kubo (Aki-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid vehicle system is configured to be capable of switching among four or more of a plurality of traveling modes including a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) mode and an electric vehicle (EV) mode, and includes one toggle switch for selecting any one of the plurality of traveling modes and a controller. The controller selects t...