US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Sept. 22 for "Controller and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,623, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Controller and control method" was invented by Takuma Kosuge (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller that controls behavior of a vehicle, and includes a control section that controls deceleration of the vehicle. In a situation where the vehicle is being decelerated, when a shift position of the vehicle is switched from a first position, at which power can be transmitted between a drive source (for example, an engine and a travel motor) of the vehicle and a drive wheel of the vehicle, to a second position, at which the power cannot ...