US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Dec. 9 for "Control apparatus for vehicle, control method for, and control system for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,749, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control apparatus for vehicle, control method for, and control system for vehicle" was invented by Tatsunori Katoh (Nagoya, Japan), Takaaki Inokuchi (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroyasu Hadano (Toyota, Japan) and Asuka Marumo (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a vehicle disclosed herein is applied to a vehicle configured to perform pre-air conditioning of the interior of the vehicle by starting an internal combustion engine according to a remote control signal sent from a remote controller. When starting...