US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Control device and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,474, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device and control method" was invented by Takayuki Shimauchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device configured to control a vehicle coolant circuit includes a processor. The processor is configured to calculate a target coolant temperature, and control heat sources based on the target coolant temperature. The processor is configured to correct the target coolant temperature in consideration of a loss of heat of a coolant in a coolant passage."

The patent was filed on Sept. 2, 2021, under Application No. 17/465,082.

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