ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,870, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle" was invented by Naohiko Hirosumi (Tokyo), Yuji Ohori (Tokyo), Takahiro Uchimura (Tokyo) and Yasuhito Yamaguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: an engine that generates driving force; a motor-generator that generates driving force; a battery electrically coupled to the motor-generator; an electric supercharger that compresses air with electric power supplied by the battery and to supply the compressed air to the engine; a navigation device that determines a route; and a control device including at least one processor and at least one memory...