ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,290, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Control device for a battery-powered vehicle" was invented by Hirotaka Yamakawa (Aki-gun, Japan), Ryusuke Sagawa (Aki-gun, Japan), Kengo Nakashima (Aki-gun, Japan), Koichi Sugimoto (Aki-gun, Japan), Hiroshi Minamoto (Aki-gun, Japan), Masahiro Miyazaki (Aki-gun, Japan) and Daisuke Shimo (Aki-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device of a vehicle includes a controller. The vehicle includes an engine having an exhaust system including a combustion chamber and a catalyst, a motor able to operate drive wheels of the vehicle, and a battery which...