ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,831, issued on April 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Drive force control system for vehicle" was invented by Tatsuya Imamura (Okazaki, Japan), Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Yoshio Itou (Susono, Japan), Hiroyuki Amano (Susono, Japan), Akiko Nishimine (Susono, Japan), Hiroaki Ebuchi (Hadano, Japan) and Hiroaki Kodera (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive force control system for a vehicle configured to accurately imitate a change in a drive force in a model vehicle. A drive torque simulator computes a virtual drive torque supposed to be delivered to drive wheels of the model vehicle in respon...