ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,250, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drive motor control system and snow removal system for vehicle" was invented by Shotaro Suzuki (Tokyo), Yoshitsugu Inoue (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Akiyama (Tokyo), Go Yanagisawa (Tokyo), Takahiro Kawashiri (Tokyo) and Tong Wang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive motor control system performs control of a drive motor of a vehicle that includes the drive motor and a battery. The drive motor control system includes a control processor that controls an electric current supply from the battery to the drive motor and includes an operational state determiner that determines w...