ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,003, issued on March 25, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Jun Oosawa (Tokyo) and Masaki Komuro (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a motor generator, an engine, a transmission mechanism, a clutch mechanism, and a control system configured to control the motor generator, the engine, the transmission mechanism and the clutch mechanism. The control system has a first traveling mode to engage the clutch mechanism and a second traveling mode to disengage the clutch mechanism. The control system is configured to set a shift period based on a transmissi...