ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,959, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Shunsuke Urabe (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device for controlling a power source so as to drive a vehicle in a selected one of a plurality of modes so as to drive the vehicle in at least one power source for outputting power to a drive shaft connected to the axle, and for controlling the power source so as to gradually decrease the torque output to the drive shaft toward a required torque at the time of accelerator-off over a target lowering time, wherein the target lowering time is ...