ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,124, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control system for electric vehicle" was invented by Kentaroh Kanzaki (Toyota, Japan), Yasunori Matsumoto (Toyota, Japan), Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Yuta Tsukada (Toyota, Japan) and Hiroyuki Amano (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for an electric vehicle configured to simulate an engine stall which might occur in conventional vehicles while preventing the simulation of the engine stall in an unfavorable situation. A controller of the control system is configured to: execute an engine stall control to simulate a behavior o...