US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on May 19 for "Vehicle controller and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,257, issued on May 19, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Vehicle controller and vehicle control method" was invented by Kosuke Obayashi (Kobe, Japan) and Koshi Fusazaki (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry is configured such that: when a boost request is not being generated, the processing circuitry determines, as target torque of a prime mover in accordance with a normal rule, normal torque which corresponds to an acceleration request amount; when the boost request is generated under a first condition, the processing circuitry determines, as the target torque of the prime mover in ac...