US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on April 22 for "Control method for vehicle and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,766, issued on April 22, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Control method for vehicle and vehicle" was invented by Kiyoshi Hoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiko Misao (Kanagawa, Japan), Hokuto Miyakawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryota Hagiwara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle has an engine, an electric generator, a drive motor, and a battery, the electric generator driven by the engine to generate electric power, the drive motor driven by the electric power, and regenerative electric power of the drive motor supplied to the battery. The vehicle has a first mode in which braking force compensati...