ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,173, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle" was invented by Takuya Homma (Tokyo), Tsukasa Mikuni (Tokyo), Ryota Nakamura (Tokyo), Junichi Motoyama (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Hayakawa (Tokyo), Yuta Goto (Tokyo) and Takuya Kaneta (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a mode transition determination unit, and a controller. The mode transition determination unit is configured to make a determination as to whether or not one or both of a driving mode and a travel mode have made a transition. The controller is configured to vary a speed of a state change of interior equipment, based on a result of th...