US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 21 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,945, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Hirotaka Sasaki (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor is capable of executing low SOC control to set a particular target SOC, which is a target SOC for when a vehicle traveling from a first specific position along a first journey route arrives at a second specific position, to a value lower than the normal target SOC. The particular target SOC of the vehicle executing the low SOC control is a value of the EV-SW permissible SOC or greater...