ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,648, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Braking force control device" was invented by Tsutomu Kawanishi (Nisshin, Japan), Shun Sato (Toyota, Japan) and Masahiro Nishiu (Toyohashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The braking force control device detects an impossible state where one or some of the actuators are temporarily unable to generate a negative driving force, and a predictive state where one or some of the actuators are predicted to become unable to generate a negative driving force. Every time the coasting state occurs before establishment of the impossible state and after establi...