US Patent Issued to JATCO, NISSAN MOTOR on Jan. 20 for "Control device for vehicle, control method for vehicle, and program" (Japanese, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,469, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JATCO Ltd (Fuji, Japan) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle, control method for vehicle, and program" was invented by Hiroyuki Tokoi (Isehara, Japan), Keisuke Iwado (Ebina, Japan), Itaru Shinohara (Atsugi, Japan), Sunho Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Satoshi Nakano (Chikusei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a vehicle is used in a vehicle that travels by transmitting a driving force from an engine to a drive wheel via a clutch. The control device includes a controller configured to perform an engine stop control in which, when an accel...