US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "Control device of vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,328, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device of vehicle" was invented by Hisashi Ito (Obu, Japan), Koki Minamikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Akihito Hayasaka (Nisshin, Japan) and Shotaro Yamada (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device of a vehicle, the vehicle having: a power source including an engine and an electric motor; and a power transmission shaft to which the power source is coupled in a power transmittable manner; the vehicle comprising: a power transmission device transmitting a torque of the power source input to the power transmission shaft, to driving wheels; ...