US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Control apparatus for hybrid electrically-operated vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,131, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control apparatus for hybrid electrically-operated vehicle" was invented by Seiji Masunaga (Toyota, Japan) and Shingo Eto (Gamagori, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a hybrid electrically-operated vehicle that includes an engine, a rotating machine, a transmission apparatus and an engine connection/disconnection device which is to be engaged to connect a power transmission between the engine and the transmission apparatus and which is to be released to disconnect the power transmission between the engine and the transmission ap...