ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,038, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle and vehicle control method" was invented by Takami Iwamoto (Toyota, Japan), Shun Nagai (Miyoshi, Japan), Yuto Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan), Junichi Katsumata (Susono, Japan), Shotaro Arai (Okazaki, Japan), Hiroki Maeda (Atugi, Japan), Masahiro Hara (Gotenba, Japan) and Daigo Tateishi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU of a vehicle executes a regeneration process to control an electric motor so as to generate regenerative torque during deceleration caused by an accelerator OFF. The ECU executes a torque gradu...