US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,772, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Masanao Idogawa (Nagoya, Japan), Hirokazu Andoh (Seto, Japan), Takahiro Uchida (Okazaki, Japan), Yoshikazu Asami (Gotemba, Japan), Hidekazu Nawata (Toyota, Japan), Jumpei Nasu (Nisshin, Japan) and Sohichi Imai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine, a first electric motor, a second electric motor, an electric power storage device, and a control device. The control device is configured to control the engine and the first electric motor so that the engine is operat...