US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Controller for hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,494, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Controller for hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Koji Murakami (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a hybrid electric vehicle executes an engine starting process including a first starting process and a second starting process. The first starting process drives a motor generator. The second starting process is executed when a shifting condition is satisfied in the first starting process. The second starting process includes suspending the supply of power to the motor gene...