US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Vehicle controller and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,040, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle controller and vehicle control method" was invented by Masahiro Kachi (Nagakute, Japan), Takehiro Komatsu (Toyota, Japan) and Tomohiro Nakano (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes processing circuitry configured to execute a counter updating process, first and second starting processes, and a resetting process. The resetting process includes resetting the crank counter when a crank counter has a value outside of a range corresponding to a tooth-missing portion in a case in which a magnitude of a difference ...