US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Electric vehicle having synthesized internal combustion engine sound" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,084, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electric vehicle having synthesized internal combustion engine sound" was invented by Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Yoshio Itou (Susono, Japan), Hiroyuki Amano (Susono, Japan), Tatsuya Imamura (Okazaki, 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: "An electric vehicle includes a shift lever and a clutch pedal for simulating manual gear changes of a traditional vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine and manual transmission, and includes a controller for...