ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,393, issued on July 21, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Controller and control method" was invented by Motoya Suzuki (Fujisawa, Japan) and Shuuichi Yahagi (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller that performs PI control on a control input to a controlled object on the basis of a difference between a target value and an output, the controller including a model converting part that converts an ultra-local model obtained by modeling the controlled object into a state space model by defining a differential of an output of the controlled object including measurement noise by the control input and a deviati...