ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,816, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Controller for vehicle, control method for vehicle, and memory medium" was invented by Yuki Nose (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuto Ikeda (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a vehicle is provided. An air supply passage is connected to a portion upstream of a filter in an exhaust passage. An air supplying process supplies air to the filter through an air supply passage by driving an air pump. An oxygen supplying process supplies oxygen to the filter through the exhaust passage, the oxygen having been passed through a combustion chamber of a...