ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,824, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device and control method" was invented by Takanori Michishita (Tokyo), Daichi Ishida (Tokyo), Masaomi Sato (Tokyo) and Shinji Takuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a vehicle that includes a rotating electric machine for driving a vehicle, a power storage device configured to transmit and receive electric power to and from the rotating electric machine, and a cooling device configured to cool the power storage device. The control device includes a processor configured to execute a program to acquire a temperature of the power st...