ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,922, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Cooling control device for electrified vehicle" was invented by Masataka Iwamoto (Toyota, Japan), Koichi Okuda (Toyota, Japan) and Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling control device for an electrified vehicle comprising: a first electric oil pump for supplying oil to a first motor for driving a front wheel; and a second electric oil pump for supplying oil to a second motor for driving a rear wheel, wherein the device is capable of switching between a four-wheel drive travel mode and a two-wheel drive travel mode in which ...