ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,766, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Haibo Liu (Kariya, Japan), Keisuke Kawai (Kariya, Japan), Akira Sakamoto (Kariya, Japan), Tatsuya Takagi (Kariya, Japan) and Shigeru Kamio (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a vehicle includes an operation controller that controls operations of a rotating electric machine mounted to the vehicle, a first torque detector that detects a traveling torque which is a braking/driving torque to be output from the rotating electric machine when the vehicle is traveling, a second torque detector that d...