ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,085, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving force control device for controlling at least one of a power train and a brake" was invented by Shin Noumura (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving force control device includes: a requested driving force calculation unit configured to calculate requested driving force requested to the vehicle, in a coasting state where neither an accelerator operation nor a brake operation is performed by a driver; a power train control unit configured to control a gear ratio of the power train on the basis of the requested driving force and drivin...