US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 18 for "Vehicle moving apparatus with engine start determination values and engine power limitation for moving control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,924, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle moving apparatus with engine start determination values and engine power limitation for moving control" was invented by Hideki Kamatani (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Tsuzuki (Toyota, Japan) and Takahiro Nakano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle moving apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously move a vehicle by controlling power output from an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. The moving control maintains an index value expressing a moving state within a predetermined range and decelerates the vehicle by causing the v...