US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,916, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Yuki Yamada (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid electric vehicle includes a control device that selectively executes a plurality of traveling modes. The control device can execute a process of acquiring a predicted traveling route, a process of specifying a required traveling energy required for traveling a specific section in an EV traveling mode, a process of setting a target value and at least one threshold value for the remaining battery charge amount, and a process of determining a traveling mo...