ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,983, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electric vehicle" was invented by Keigo Yamada (Tokyo), Yoshinobu Yamazaki (Tokyo), Yoshiyuki Jin (Tokyo), Akihiro Nabeshima (Tokyo), Takeshi Yoneda (Tokyo), Fumiya Sato (Tokyo), Hiroshi Kusano (Tokyo), Takumi Araki (Tokyo) and Shuntaro Miura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle includes a motor and a controller. The controller is configured to; based on determining that the electric motor is in the locked state, set a search target torque greater than a value of torque demanded by a driver, and execute an increase of the motor torque up to the set ta...