ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,387, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Fumiya Kaji (Numazu, Japan), Michio Yoshida (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Tomoaki Yanagida (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle includes a first traveling mode being driven by the torque output from a first rotary electric machine, and a second traveling mode being driven by the engine torque output from an engine and the torque output from the first rotary electric machine, wherein a section 1 for cranking the engine by the output of the second rotary electric machin...