ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,947, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Ken Ohnishi (Toyota, Japan), Masato Tateno (Toyota, Japan), Takashi Yuma (Toyokawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Hiasa (Miyoshi, Japan) and Shunsuke Urabe (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle comprises an auto-return shift lever which is operated to switch the shift range. When the shift lever is held at the N position for a predetermined holding period or longer during the regeneration control while the shift range is traveling in the D range, the electronic control device of the vehicle performs the bra...