US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,798, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Akito Uchida (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device, for a vehicle, include a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a traveling mode of the vehicle equipped with an engine as a traveling power source is switched to a circuit mode, and a switching unit configured to switch a target idle speed to a higher speed when the determination unit makes an affirmative determination than when the determination unit makes a negative determination."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19,...