US Patent Issued to SUBARU on May 6 for "Vehicle control apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,108, issued on May 6, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Chihiro Oguro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a first traveling motor, a second traveling motor, and a control system. The first traveling motor is coupled to a first wheel of a vehicle. The second traveling motor is coupled to a second wheel of the vehicle. The control system is configured to decrease a power running torque of the first traveling motor and increase a power running torque of the second traveling motor in a case where a first distance from the vehicle to a contact predicted...