ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,191, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Control apparatus" was invented by Mitsuharu Higashitani (Kariya City, Japan), Masakatsu Shigyo (Kariya City, Japan) and Noriaki Ikemoto (Kariya City, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The vehicle includes a storage battery that stores therein electric power that is supplied from an external power supply apparatus and a rotating electric machine that is driven by electric power from the storage battery. The control apparatus includes a temperature adjusting unit that adjusts a temperature of the storage battery. The...