ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,997, issued on June 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a switching control unit, an information acquisition unit, and a difference acquisition unit. The switching control unit performs switching control that increases braking torque of the braking device while decreasing braking torque of the rotating electrical machine, when a vehicle is decel...