US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "Controller for hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,329, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, 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 when an execution condition for starting an engine is satisfied. The engine starting process includes a first starting process that drives a motor generator to crank the engine and a second starting process that is executed when the first starting process failed to start the engine. The second starting process inclu...