ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,931, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Controller and control method for vehicle" was invented by Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan), Koichi Okuda (Toyota, Japan), Masato Nakano (Toyota, Japan), Nobuhiko Satake (Toyota, Japan) and Yoshito Sekiguchi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including an internal combustion engine and an automatic transmission capable of transmitting and receiving torque to and from an output shaft of the internal combustion engine is controlled. During operation of the internal combustion engine, a process that calculates a diluted water amount based o...