ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,220, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Electrified vehicle" was invented by Takaomi Banno (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes a drive device including a driving motor for traveling and a power storage device for exchanging electric power with the motor, a drive device that controls the drive device so as to travel by switching between the manual driving mode and the automated driving mode, and a control device that cuts the creep torque when the creep torque is satisfied when the creep torque is outputted from the motor. In the automatic operation mode, th...