ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,040, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Yoshihisa Nakamura (Okazaki, Japan), Junya Ishimoto (Toyota, Japan) and Shogo Tanaka (Toki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes (i) drive wheels, (ii) an engine, (iii) a filter configured to collect particulate matters contained in exhaust gas of the engine, (iv) a fluid transmission device provided in a power transmission path between the engine and the drive wheels and (v) a direct clutch configured to connect between an input member and an output member of the...