ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,389, issued on May 5, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Vehicle control method and vehicle control device" was invented by Takuya Maekawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is applied to a control device for controlling a vehicle that travels using a driving force of an engine. The control device for the vehicle includes the vehicle speed detection unit that detects the vehicle speed, and the automatic engine stop unit that performs the automatic engine stop after a prescribed time elapses from when the vehicle speed detection unit detects that the vehicle is in the stopped sta...