ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,320, issued on May 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Chihiro Oguro (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Kambe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a front-wheel drive system, a rear-wheel drive system, and a control system. The front-wheel drive system includes one or two front-wheel motors coupled to a front wheel. The rear-wheel drive system includes two rear-wheel motors coupled to a rear wheel. The control system controls the front-wheel drive system and the rear-wheel drive system. If a front-wheel slip rate is greater than a start threshold upon coasting...