ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,035, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Yukimasa Nishimura (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes a drive wheel, an engine and an electric motor as power sources for driving the vehicle, and an automatic transmission which is provided in a power transmission path between the power sources and the drive wheel and which is configured to selectively establish a plurality of gear positions providing respective different gear ratios. The control apparatus includes a limp-home-running control portion c...