US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 9 for "Control device for engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,666, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for engine" was invented by Reiko Goh (Toyota, Japan), Masanao Idogawa (Nagoya, Japan), Takahiro Uchida (Okazaki, Japan), Masahiro Kachi (Nagakute, Japan) and Seiji Hirowatari (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device, for an engine provided in a vehicle, is configured to change a rotation speed limit value for the engine from a first rotation speed limit value to a second rotation speed limit value higher than the first rotation speed limit value, when a circuit mode is selected as a driving mode of the vehicle, and the co...