ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,659, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Takuya Kurokawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle control apparatus includes: first/second shaft coupled with first/second drive wheel of vehicle; differential gear mechanism configured to distribute torque from motor to first/second shaft; sensor configured to detect first/second wheel rotation speed and motor rotation speed; and motor control unit including processor and memory. Motor control unit: calculates input rotation speed into differential gear mechanism based on motor rotation speed; calculates ou...