ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,646, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Motor control device and motor control method" was invented by Satoshi Yasuda (Nagakute, Japan) and Taro Shimosaka (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device includes: a first storage unit that stores characteristic data related to drive control of a vehicle motor; a second storage unit that stores a vehicle type parameter related to a predetermined vehicle type; a processor that executes arithmetic processing related to the drive control corresponding to the predetermined vehicle type, based on th...