ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,038, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Controller for vehicle and control method for vehicle" was invented by Masahiro Kachi (Nagakute, Japan), Takehiro Komatsu (Toyota, Japan) and Masanao Idogawa (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a start request for an internal combustion engine is made with 1) a clutch disconnected, 2) a crankshaft rotating at a specified rotation speed or greater, and 3) fuel injection by an injector stopped, a controller for a vehicle executes: a first process that identifies, from the cylinders, a target cylinder that is in a compression stroke when th...