ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,588, issued on May 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Nakamura (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Goto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes an air flow sensor provided in an intake passage of an engine. The vehicle control apparatus includes a control system configured to read an output signal from the air flow sensor as first flow rate data. The control system is configured to calculate a coefficient of variation of the first flow rate data, and subject the first flow rate data to a smoothing process to calculate second flow rate data. The control syste...