US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Oct. 7 for "Method for controlling vehicle, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,686, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Method for controlling vehicle, and vehicle" was invented by Kiyoshi Hoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiko Misao (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Miyauchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Azusa Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an engine, a generator, a drive motor, and a filter that collects particulate matter in exhaust gas of the engine. The generator is driven by the engine to generate power. The drive motor is driven with the power generated by the generator. A method for controlling the vehicle includes performing motoring by...