US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "Control device for electrified vehicle, electrified vehicle, and control method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,049, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for electrified vehicle, electrified vehicle, and control method therefor" was invented by Kohji Miyazaki (Toyota, Japan), Shunsuke Oyama (Nagakute, Japan) and Ryohei Yuasa (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electrified vehicle of traveling using a battery, it is determined whether the driving mode of the vehicle is a first driving mode in which the driver's involvement in the traveling of the vehicle is low, or a second driving mode in which the driver's involvement is higher than the first driving mode. When it is determ...