US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 3 for "Throttle control system, throttle control method, and memory medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,308, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Throttle control system, throttle control method, and memory medium" was invented by Fukiko Horibe (Toyota, Japan) and Hiroshi Fujitani (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving process causes a target angular position of a specific gear in a throttle device to reach an initial position by continuing to increase or decrease the target angular position at a constant speed. A determination process determines that wear has occurred on a gear mechanism in the throttle device based on a parameter related to a change speed of an angular position in a ...