ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,623, issued on April 22, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drive control system" was invented by Shota Inudo (Tokyo), Yuji Ohori (Tokyo) and Dai Okiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive control system includes an engine, an electric turbocharger, and a controller. The engine includes a cylinder and a piston provided in a slidable manner inside the cylinder and rotates a crankshaft in accordance with sliding of the piston. The electric turbocharger supplies compressed air into the cylinder. The controller controls the engine and the electric turbocharger. The controller includes at least one processor and at least one...